It’s Friday, and I have my trusty red by my side. Tonight, it’s a 2006 Clos de los Siete, a fine inexpensive dandy from Argentina, and it’s going down very smoothly. Perhaps too smoothly. So if any of the following is incoherent or offensive (more so than my sober dispatches), I apologize in advance – I really do love you - it was the booze talking.
- Well now, the Dow appears to have ended up sharply today. That’s it, the recession is over, there is nothing to see here…please return to your lives. Despite a US economy that shed over 533,000 jobs last month (the worst in 34 years) investors apparently had a lot to be happy about as the averages gained over 250 points…the upturn was fueled on speculation that the federal government had no choice but to pass a massive stimulus package…um, yeah...as to what that package might be is anyone’s guess…if Obama includes cuts on corporate and marginal tax rates designed to stimulate investment, then we’re on to something…if they amount to more government welfare, er, Middle-Class tax credits, then we’re in big trouble…strike that, bigger trouble
- In a series of confusing motions, OJ Simpson was sentenced to up to 33 years in prison earlier this afternoon. Simpson’s years of dogged detective work in searching for his wife’s killer on Florida’s golf courses and night clubs have come to an end. Karma’s a bitch OJ. Speaking of Karma, our favorite Karma Chameleon, Boy George, has also been found guilty in a court of law, but for offenses wholly different from OJ’s – he’s been found guilty of kidnapping, and chaining his male escort to a bed. Oh, if only poetic justice could be a factor in sentencing…
- Reports out of New York tonight that Caroline Kennedy has expressed interest in filling the senate seat of outgoing Senator Hillary Clinton, should Clinton be confirmed as Secretary of State. Kennedy’s previous political experience is that….wait for it…she’s a Kennedy, who also happened to back the right horse at the right time this past presidential season…
- And while we're on horses, whatever happened to John Kerry? I mean seriously, the guy gives Obama his big break in 2004, allowing the-then state senator from Illinois the spotlight in an otherwise standard issue Democrat snoozefest, and then was one of Obama’s most enthusiastic, early supporters…word was that he was a shoo-in for State, and then…crickets…psst, John, did you tell them you served in Vietnam?
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