Okay, so the title doesn’t make a lot of sense, but it’s a spin on Arsenic and Old Lace, that splendid little play about old women and their passion for arsenic murders, all done very humorously.
Of course, there’s nothing funny about the current incarnation of death by arsenic.

…must come down, or not?
Here’s what got me thinking.  The Wall Street Journal reported today that the recent run-up in the Dow Jones average is almost unprecedented.  First, it’s been 978 trading days since the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 10 percent, the second longest such run on record.  Second, the market has gone 135 [...]

Frank Gehry has designed and won approval for a project (pictured) that will completely transform Brooklyn while also providing a new home arena for the New Jersey (?) Nets basketball team.
So, what’s the first thing that happens?  Lawsuits by NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) individuals and groups.  The first phase is scheduled for completion in [...]

This is a good one.  Actually, two good ones. 
First comes the inventor of the Internet, Al Gore, and his Kyoto Accords, whereby “industrial polluters” could trade credits with polluters who reduce pollutants and so on until they reached the Monopoly equivalent of Park Place and all those nasty chloroflurocarbons and Global Warming (must be capitalized because [...]

Okay, so it’s no secret that the Demofiends hate the exercise of American power, if not America itself.  But that’s not their latest little dirty secret.
This secret is masked by the ruling party’s need to fake nobility and adherence to higher causes and values, into which it appears a lot of the public is buying, [...]

I have some roots, recent ones, in the American labor movement, so it came as no surprise to me that the Big Three are bleeding red, Ford just having posted its biggest annual loss in corporate history at $12.7 billion.
My last job, before being personally consigned to the junk heap of Baby Boom economics, was with [...]

What was that poem’s phrase, “not with a bang but a whimper”?
I heard the whimper today.

Actually, the back then I’m referring to is 1967–and the place Miami–because in 2007 the Super Bowl is returning to that glorious Florida city.
In commemoration of the anniversary, the U.S. Census Bureau has prepared a handy comparison of how the city, the nation and the world were in 1967 and in 2007.
Question:  Did more Americans finish [...]

With the nomination of Letters from Iwo Jima today for Best Picture by the Motion Picture Academy, director Clint Eastwood has redeemed himself from his earlier disaster on Iwo Jima called Flags of Our Fathers.  The latter was little more than an antiwar diatribe, but the second version, told from the Japanese perspective, achieves a [...]

The media are not just gearing up for 2008; they’re already there.  They’ll pay obeisance to Saint Hillary (just in case), but they want to sing “Hosanna” to Obama.
As we sit here, the media elite are licking their linotypes and chops over visions of Bush’s chariots being pulled from Baghdad and retired to mothballs along [...]