Rant of the day

OFF TO THE U.K. I am off to the U.K. for a couple of days, so no blogging for a while. Back on Monday. Walter Blotscher

A BIG NUMBER (2) Some eighteen months ago, I wrote a post mentioning the word trillion, and pointing out how that rather large number was...

TEENAGE BOYS (2) Since my two sons have left home, I can notice the difference in the houshold bills. Food bills are way down; but so to...

THE RUGBY WORLD CUP The rugby world cup is currently taking place in New Zealand. Rugby is the country's passion, and the All Blacks a...

FOOTBALL SHIRT NUMBERS Is it just me who is irritated by the trend in football shirt numbers? In the old days it was simple; there were el...

THE DEATH PENALTY Last night a man named Troy Davis was put to death by lethal injection by the State of Georgia. He had sat on Death Row ...

FINANCIAL CRISIS II A string of recent snippets of bad economic news (debt downgrades, falling share prices, budget cuts, low growth) are ...