Remember when “kids on drugs” meant them smoking joints after school?Now it’s taking antidepressants during it. What have we done?
So King Barack has had it with legislatures. My, that’s original. Or not. Didn’t Richard Nixon come up with it? And Richard II. Click here to read the rest.
Apparently the U.S. is putting “pressure” on Israelis and Palestinians to advance the “Mideast peace process.” Pressure, I think, is a colourless, odourless gas that causes journalists to write headlines. But I have no idea what this “peace process” might be. Click here to read the rest.
Memo to: E. Scrooge From: J. Marley Re: Branding
Dear Ebenezer, I’m happy to report that Scrooge and Marley have enjoyed another year of record profits. By lending sums people can’t repay at rates they can’t afford and hiring only a miserable skeleton staff we are making money in ways only Charles Dickens could imagine.
The middle class is hurting. Maybe the government should do something. Click here to read the rest.
What is government for? Where does it get its powers? What can’t it do? Such questions are often scorned as “academic” by the brisk pragmatists who rush about the corridors of power concocting hare-brained schemes to offend and annoy the public at great cost. But unless you answer them, correctly, your policies and statements are likely to be terribly confused. Click here to read the rest.
Everyone’s fussing over Generation Y, the 18- to 32-year-old “Millennials,” here in huge numbers and ever so special. But having trouble coping. Poor babies. Click here to read the rest.