Hopeful Romantics

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Once again terrorists have visited Wall Street.   This time they did not attack with hijacked airliners, crashing into the iconic symbols of American finance and commerce.    This time it wasn’t even the fanatical zealots from the Middle East but instead our own home grown variety of terrorists.    Most were American born, indoctrinated [...]

More and more countries are banning Chinese milk.   According to an article in Bloomberg.com, India, South Korea and France have joined the twenty other countries that will not longer import dairy products from China.   Chinese milk has killed at least four children and has made at least another 50,000 ill.   If you start to consider [...]

Morton Sobel, one of the key figures in what is known as the Rosenberg Spy Case, finally admitted he had spied for the Russians.  His confession came almost 60 years later, after he and Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were convicted for passing secrets about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.   Sobel served more than [...]

For years industry has lived down the arguably unfair 60’s Hippie labeling as everything artificial, uniform and lacking in spirit as “plastic.”   Now the greatest concern with plastic may well be the health risks.   In a new study that was published on BreitBart the plastics used in food cans, baby bottles and just about everything [...]

I live in a high rise.   As with most things, there are pluses and minuses to living in a high rise. The best part of living in a high rise is the views.   And then there are the conveniences.   There are cleaners in the building, markets adjacent.   Makes life easier in some ways.
You develop a [...]