News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, June 8, 2011

I believe that socialism is the only system that we may subjugate ourselves to and still be able to call ourselves human and that society will slowly evolve into socialism, followed by the C-word, which I still have an unnatural reflex to.

As my exams draw closer and closer, I find myself staring closer and closer at the contents of the various textbooks that lay strewn around my room. One of these textbooks is a particularly hefty anthology of poets and poems that I’m to know for one of my English exams. [...]

Every weekend, free samples of the American consumer society are offered at your local Costco…along with five layer dip and gummy vitamins.

All the non-Anthony Weiner news and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, June 7, 2011

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, June 6, 2011

  I never wanted to be a pundit. ~Robert MacNeil   Let’s get this out of the way early. Almost all of us dislike punditry for various reasons. There may be a voice or two out there that we all hold in some esteem and try to set apart from [...]

Now, six years later, he’s back and running again for the GOP nomination. It reveals a sad state of Republican affairs in the Commonwealth when Allen’s opponents for the Republican nod are a Tea Partier and a State politician who advocates Virginia minting its own currency and who manages to make Pat Buchanan look like a Progressive. In the world of the Republican blind, the one-eyed George Allen is king, at least in Virginia.

Congresswoman Bachmann: Well, it is just great to see our leadership here today. We’ve really got some interesting and luminating topics to discuss.   Sarah Palin: Uh, Michelle, if I could just stop you there. I think you mean illuminating topics.   Congresswoman Bachmann: Hmm, I don’t know. Are you [...]

    I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. ~Revelation 22:13 All that is in heaven and earth gives glory to Allah. He is the Mighty, the Wise One.His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. He ordains [...]

First, big props to jkkFL for coming up with this weekend’s theme! As the end of the school year and graduations arrive, so does that once-in-a-lifetime memorable evening called Senior Prom. It may have been memorable for the dancing, the partying or for some of us who go back a [...]

  Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! ~Thomas A. Edison There is a lot of talk right now about the long term financial future of the [...]

(Just a little) News and opinion from around US-opolis for Saturday, June 4, 2011

AdLib : Night Khirad. Seems like a good time to bring tonight’s edition of Vox Populi to a close. Thanks Sally and Khirad and all of our fantastic members for making it another enjoyable and enlightening evening. Have a great weekend and we’ll see you next Friday at 7! AdLib [...]

I have a confession to make. I know very little about Mormonism. Oh, of course I know the basics — Joseph Smith, no coffee allowed, the missionaries in the white shirts. I even know about all the unusual things — the Magic Underpants, the Star Kolob, the polygamist sects, Native [...]

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, June 3, 2011

The loss of integrity in today’s corporate journalism stands out in great contrast against the legacy of the remarkable Bill Moyers.

Whew–that was annoying! But there are some important good news stories today. News and opinion from around US-opolis for Thursday, June 2, 2011

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, June 1, 2011

  A world without poetry and poets would be like a world without music and musicians. For me, such a world would be intolerable. I also have no doubt that would be seen as such by most everybody else in this world of ours. One of the highest aspirations of [...]

Then, I got curious. How the hell does anyone take advantage of someone who is, at least, intelligent enough to accumulate investment capital?
What does it take to convince a “savvy” person to get sucked into a scam? Apparently, not a lot.