Business Remains Steady for the World’s Oldest Profession
The world may be going to hell in a hand basket, but the world’s oldest profession is enjoying a steady business. According to an article in the the New York Daily News, business is pretty good. However, there is one difficulty–there is less business at the upper end, so to speak, where fantasy call girls [...]
John Edwards’ Poverty Lesson, When You Get Caught, Raise Your Prices
According to an article in the Chicago Sun-Times, John Edwards has decided to reemerge from his seclusion and go back on the public speaking circuit. He also decided to raise his speaking rates to $65,000, up from the more previous $55,000. That’s a lot of money to talk about poverty. Or maybe the cost of [...]
Federal Agents Have Mistaken Osama Bin Laden for a Pot Plant
I feel safer this week than I did last. Much safer. Why? Not because the intrepid strategists of our federal government arrested Osama Bin Laden. Not because they have vanquished the Taliban in Afghanistan. And certainly not because they arrested every violent street gang member in Los Angeles and [...]
Does This Painting Remind You of Anybody?
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Besides conducting background checks and corporate research, I am still an author and am fairly versed in the arts. I had the fortune of seeing this painting on display in the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, known as LACMA around these parts. It is a most [...]
Fuel Prices Send American Workers Below the Border
I noticed this article in the San Diego Union-Tribune about American drivers going down below the border to buy diesel fuel at half the price they can get it here.
Bus service may be halted today
By Omar Millán González
UNION-TRIBUNE
June 19, 2008
TIJUANA – Truck and bus drivers experienced a day of chaos in Tijuana yesterday, as they [...]