“Except for That, Mrs. Lincoln Ms. Dargis . . .” * After all the sugar-coated reviews that bear no resemblance to the actual movie, you gotta love this take on Tyler Perry’s newest effort, “Alex Cross,” courtesy of The New York Times’ Manohla Dargis: “A grim, dispiritingly stupid waste of time, energy, money and talent. In order to sucker anyone...Read More
Penny Stock? Hardly One of the, umm . . . downsides of sporting a 3-digit share price is that the gyrations are bigger, too (at least nominally). So, Google’s stock dropped $68 a share today immediately after disclosing that their latest quarterly earnings were disappointing. Make that, before they disclosed their quarterly earnings disappointment (their financial...Read More
You knew the Modern Family writers — authors of one of the more inspired sight gags I’ve ever seen — were up to something with the oddly captioned bus bench (below): Sure enough, later in the episode, Phil’s Father-in-Law, Jay, manuevers Phil into this rather compromising shot: Spoiler alert (kind of): one the story’s sub-plots...Read More
Partying Campaigning Like It’s 1999 1899* Maybe 25th U.S. President William McKinley had it right: forget the ennui and tedium of modern political campaigns — the years-long scrounging for campaign cash; repetitive debates; blathery “Town Halls”; etc. Instead, candidates should steal a page from McKinley’s playbook: campaign from their front porch. A virtual, 21st-century porch. 19th...Read More
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Apologies to The New Yorker, whose cartoon inspired this — and actually showed two (precocious) adolescents discussing the election on a playground.Read More
Perils of Gargantuan Banks Not persuaded by my myriad argument(s) on these pages for breaking up Too Big to Fail (“TBTF”) banks? See, “Drug Dealers vs. Bankers: Top Ten Differences”; “Number of the Week: $600 Trillion”; “THAT’S Returning to the Private Sector?!?“; “The Scorpion and the Tortoise Defense“; “Who Pardoned Wall Street?”; “A Financial Gettysburg Address“;...Read More
