Monthly Archives: July 2010

According to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, the gaps in after-tax income between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the middle and poorest fifths of the country more than tripled between 1979 and 2007 (the period for … Continue reading →

I don’t often talk about computers, as there is some mystery to them for me, notwithstanding that I had a PC 1 in IBM’s “First Day Window,” and wrote a book on…, well, it doesn’t matter so as it was … Continue reading →

A federal judge has blocked key provisions of a controversial Arizona law aimed at illegal immigrants. The judge blocked a requirement that police have to check the immigration status of detainees they reasonably suspect of being in the country illegally, … Continue reading →

Years ago, my employer and I went to New York on business. During the trip, I invited my oldest friend to dinner, who I always considered to be the smartest fellow on Wall Street, Mike Metz. Mike was an affluent … Continue reading →

The sun had long since set and whiskey laden as he’d been so often in the past, he wound up sleeping outside by the pool. It was the better part of a bottle of bourbon. In the morning he showered … Continue reading →