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“Give me your tired, your poor,  Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,  The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.  Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:  I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” Do you wake each morning and wonder if… more »

I recently finished reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Lincoln opus, “A Team of Rivals”.  Goodwin possesses the ability to mold the dry results of historical research into a flowing narrative- she is a good story teller.  Effusive in her praise of Lincoln’s… more »

Emerging from a groundhog’s burrow of a consulting gig, I realized that we have re-entered Standard Time hell. I really dislike the idea of setting the clocks back. It is depressing when the sun sets before five o’clock. Think of it this way: It is far… more »

Today’s news that for-profit colleges accused of fraud are still receiving Federal funds points to the great ironies that exist in the nation’s politics viz a viz the disbursement  of government funds. The billions these “educational institutions”… more »

I have been slacking off on making my usual acerbic comments in this space the last few months. I am in the midst of working on two homes- the one on Long Island we plan to sell, and the other here in Albuquerque where we will be living most of the… more »

The preseason has started! It’s all over the media- TV, websites, blogs. Pundits- with or without qualifications- are picking their favorites. Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight.com will be giving us statistical analyses. Head for your sofa, kids. Of course,… more »