“The rich are different from you and me.”
Wall Street bonuses of $18.4 billion – billion with a B – while the companies were losing zillions of dollars – zillion with a Z – and getting crajillions of dollars – crajillions with a capital C – in taxpayer bailout funds.
The Secretary of the Treasury (if this [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Rant’
January 31, 2009
F. Scott Fitzgerald was right
January 25, 2009
A 15% gratuity will be added to this blog post
We ordered pizza last night, “the usual,” 2 large, original crust, one with pepperoni and pineapple and one with Italian sausage and bacon. Yummy. Only one problem: it took almost two hours for them to arrive.
Thanks to a series of problems – our ticket was misplaced, the wrong toppings were applied, new pies were [...]
January 19, 2009
Done in by tech support
Here’s one of the many things that irk me: when a company screws up and makes you fix their problem. (I’m writing this as I’m on hold awaiting the second level of technical assistance.)
I had Internet service through a large international company whom we’ll call BT&T. I’m not going to identify them because of possible [...]
December 16, 2008
NO MORE CZAR or -GATES
An open letter, a plea and a firm admonition to all political journalists:
Next time someone is appointed to oversee a problem, please, please, please, please give them a nickname other than “czar.” It was first applied to the “Energy Czar” in the Nixon administration during the first energy crisis of the early 1970s. Czar or [...]
