Monthly Archives: December 2015

     (Before starting this week’s offering, a few random thoughts. This column is Volume 20, Number 52 for the year, which means, of course, that next week’s will be Volume 12, Number 1, which begins a brand new year. Where did this year go? It has been said that life […]

     Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. Starting us off are a few news stories you may have missed. First, it was a very good year. As if 2015 weren’t bad enough for the Department of Homeland Security (e.g., in June, internal DHS tests revealed that its […]

Volume 20, Number 50, December 6, 2015      Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. Starting us off are a few news stories you may have missed. First, truth in advertising? Last month, lawyer Michael Petersen of Appleton, Wisconsin, was ordered by county judge Philip Kirk (in a […]

Volume 20, Number 50      Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. Starting us off are a few news stories you may have missed. First, Art Basel, the annual weeklong festival for “One-Percenters” in Miami Beach, happened last week (I wasn’t invited), and among the many excesses is […]