| Dec 19, 2011 | Economy / BusinessDuring a key scene in the classic holiday film It’s A Wonderful Life, savings-and-loan proprietor George Bailey, played by Jimmy Stewart, memorably explains to the townspeople how his business works – that he’s not sitting on piles of money just...
| Dec 27, 2010 | Economy / BusinessDo you love your megabank? I’m talking about your local branch of CitiChaseWellsMorganofAmerica–or some similar financial conglomeration. As you might have learned from experience, they have thousands of bankers who specialize in finding innovative new...
| | Peace / SecurityKeep your family Safe from harm; Buy another Firearm. Many fantasies plague the five-member majority of our out-of-control Supreme Court. One is that law enforcement in most of the United States has pretty well collapsed. Such a nightmare plainly calls for armed...
| Jan 18, 2010 | Economy / BusinessIn Alice in Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty declares: “When I use a word, it means what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.” Well, get ready to tumble down the semantic rabbit-hole again, for giant corporations are trying to co-opt the meaning of one of...