You never know when or where a heated political issue will resurface, but when it comes up in unlikely situations it so often seems to bring out the true identity of both sides. Miss America pageants come and go, and who knows besides the viewers how the winners are picked. But I think we can [...]

A close friend of mine, and an Obama supporter, asked me today what I thought about Rush Limbaugh’s latest act: openly rooting for our President to fail. To use my friend’s words, he called it un-American, un-patriotic, illogical, selfish, and indefensible. He went on to elaborate on how Rush clearly has left the O’Reilly/Hannity group [...]

A co-worker of mine, and a good friend, recently told me that he is being fired from our company based on poor individual performance. He has known this was a strong possibility now for three months, having been on probation with the incentive to shape up or ship out. The three months probation was really [...]

During the past year I’ve seen several references to the “Lost Decade” that we’ve recenty experienced in the stock market (which is becoming the “Lost 12 Years and Counting”). Of course, numbers can be pulled in such a way to make a point at any given time. And when the Dow Jones reached 14,000 a [...]

Prior to the Nov. 4th election, Howard Stern (yes, THAT Howard Stern) circulated a video of several humorous interviews his staff conducted with likely Obama voters. The interviews exploited the voters’ lack of awareness of current issues, and even their inability to decipher whether Sarah Palin was Obama’s running mate or McCain’s. The interviews were [...]