Hopeful Romantics

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Ever since a recent trip to Las Vegas, I noticed more and more people driving mobility scooters.   We are not talking about sexy Vespas here, hearkening back to the classic French and Italian films of the sixties, where young lovers tooled around Rome and Paris on their two cycle models.   We are not even talking [...]

Everyone you know is upset over the $165 Million in bonuses that are to be awarded to the executives at AIG.   That is, of course, after the Federal Government just laid out some $170 Billion in tax payer’s money to keep the company afloat.  People are really pissed off.  In fact, even some of [...]

Anyone with a few brain cells left floating between their ears understands that the economy is lousy and times are tough.   They may not know why that happened, or, like most, they may be blaming any number of things.   But the rich are feeling the pinch and those who were pretending to be rich or [...]

I have known for a long time that Octopi are smart.   I know it because I used to watch Jacques Cousteau as a kid, and in his special on the Octopus.    He featured one solving the puzzle of a clear glass dome around its nest.   Took the Octopus no time to figure it [...]

Okay, so clearly we are emerging from a period of excess with surplus of everything and no money to buy it.   We have become used to the rituals of skin, hair, and body enhancement, including everything from expensive but dubious products to laser treatments, Botox, and cosmetic surgery.   We have been waxed, primped, cut, coddled, [...]