Marc Antony in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones,
So let it be with Caesar … The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous [...]
Yesterday, the Garces group opened the Garces Trading Company on the outskirts of the gayborhood. Today, I went. It’s smaller than I thought it would be with a cafe with waiter service in the middle and the food purchase areas around the perimeter in a sort of racetrack around the eating area. Cheeses and charcuterie [...]
I thought we as a species had evolved past being crippled by less than catastrophic weather events (this being a normal-for-the-season event). I was wrong. I have seen less juiced up frenzy after an earthquake.
I guess Apple isn’t the only American company making money. Comcast must have a stash up its sleeve in spite of abysmal service (another symptom of Americans’ addiction on television and mindless entertainment). Comcast just bought NBC. I almost enjoyed finding a New York-based source for the story. In essence, Comcast now owns Rockefeller Center. [...]
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This is the heart of the problem and it took a comedian to get it right while both news outlets and ordinary people are still discussing health “insurance”. You can’t insure something you know will fail, and that’s the truth.
I had no idea the Olympic Games had never been held in South America. They’re a world sporting contest, aren’t they? How can an entire continent (of which there are only 5) have been ignored for so long? As much as I like Chicago and commend everyone for trying to get the Games there, I [...]
Not long ago, a friend asked me what I, a health care professional, thought of the raging debate on health care reform. I’ve been silent on it both because I’m so busy that I usually avoid anything having to do with work on my days off and because so much was being said and shouted. [...]
I’m just starting to catch up on all the news now. I wouldn’t want to be you for all the gold In Fort Knox.
This is some concerning late-breaking news. I’m far from an alarmist, but I heard this nugget on CNN at the gym today and it made me clutch my iPod just a little more tightly on my way home in the cold of a January night. He built Apple. For all his perceived flaws and the [...]
From the House:
Pelosi Statement on White House Proposal on Auto Industry
Washington, D.C. — Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on the Bush Administration’s proposal to use money allocated for building fuel-efficient vehicles to aid the automobile industry:
“The President’s proposal would unwisely divert money urgently needed for modernization of the U.S. auto industry, so [...]
Late last night the honking of the car horns and the screaming and yelling started up again, this in a city that has just seen its baseball team win the World Series. There were no fireworks last night, but the enthusiasm was no less than the night the Phillies won that last game. Never in [...]