Whenever someone asks me how terrorists can manage to stay alive and keep planning attacks, I just point them at North Korea. It isn’t that I think that the dear leader Kim Jong-Il is a terrorists, at least not in the normal term. Rather, that is the world cannot find a way to get dispose [...]
The US and world economy is shrinking and collapsing faster than anyone could have expected. The new US President Obama came to office with a mandate to change things, to make it work, and to get us all out of the problems we face. However, according to this Michael Boskin opinion piece in the Wall [...]
You can file this one in the “stupid idiot protester” bin. British Business Secretary Lord Mandelson was hit with a huge cup full of green custard by a protester from the group Plane Stupid. The group is protesting climate change caused by airplanes, particularly at London’s Heathrow airport. To their credit, I would have never [...]
Okay now, we have all watched the Britney Spears saga, as this once rising star wandered away from show biz to have a couple of kids with a baby factory of a husband, went mental, and generally lost it. Well, Britney Spears is back with a new album and a new tour, but the tour [...]
This one sort of caught me by surprise. Comedian and general energizer bunny Robin Williams has been hospitalized and had to cancel some shows from his current “Weapons of Self-Destruction” show, after becoming short of breath. Some news organizations such as AFP are suggesting he has heart issues. I guess what sort of suprised me [...]
Is it a ploy to get more money from the US government? It was reported today that “General Motors Corp.’s auditors have raised “substantial doubt” about the troubled automaker’s ability to continue operations, and the company said it may have to seek bankruptcy protection if it can’t execute a huge restructuring plan.” General Motors (and [...]
