Runaway Success is..

Runaway success of rich to be super-rich means poor shall be made super-poor. The top 1% owns 40% of Nation’s wealth and the American dream gives 99% harsh reality of maintaining it. This shows somewhere American passion for equality and fair pay has suffered serious damage. It would seriously curtail America’s role as champion of [...]

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News on the March- a Grimmer Tale

We have heard the Buddhist monks in Tibet protesting against Chinese occupation. The world is too busy with other things. When their protests fall on deaf ears it may trigger self-immolation as we read of cases recently. Their acts were ultimate protest. They could not do anything more. Self-immolation has an euphonious sound but the [...]

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Thirty companies paid no income tax 2008-2010: report USA

The statutory U.S. corporate income tax rate is 35 percent, one of the highest in the world, but over the 2008-2010 period thirty large companies while their profits were good avoided to pay their dues. The average effective tax rate for the companies over the period was 18.5 percent, said Citizens for Tax Justice and [...]

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Ethical Living?

I used to fish whenever I had a chance. I have fished in the deep sea and in the canal behind my house whenever I had leisure and boy o boy! trouts love an angler like me. When they see my angle they know I am fishing for compliments. No fear dearies! Had I been [...]

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Making God in Man’s Image

‘The signs of our times must be so bad that we must fashion God in our image. Recently I spent some time with a couple who had come from the US. He said he was all for the GOP and he minced no words to show he abhorred the liberalism that made the American society [...]

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Meltdown near Ground Zero

Is constructing an Islamic Center with a mosque near Ground Zero a controversial point? As an outsider and one interested in what goes on about me my views are my own. Freedom of worship is an article of faith for whoever places premium on good sense than obscurantist principles that religion always espouses. Christian churches, [...]

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Spot the Difference-3

In my youth I read Hurricane Betty rained fishes all across the coastal areas. Everyone from Montana to Arkansas drove down to see the rare sight. I also joined the bandwagon to see the miracle, There was a crush alright. Not one among them was a fisher man. I asked an oil rigger from Texas [...]

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Blue Velvet-1986

In my time it was Peyton Place that lay lurking behind the peaceful exterior of small town Americana. For Gwadsake, this is 1986. Welcome to Lumberton! It’s a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chain saws out. This is the mighty W-O-O-D. At the sound of the falling tree, it’s 9:30. There’s a [...]

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Oh Irresponsible Me!

School District 202 in Plainfield, Illinois, joins other school districts across the nation in banning “look-alike drugs”: candy cigarettes, fake chewing tobacco, non-alcoholic beer, and oregano. Various reasons are cited for the ban, one being that candy cigarettes can possibly lead to real cigarette use, that they send an inappropriate presmoking message. Secondly, that the [...]

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