Blog in a Time of Chaos and Confusion

Van Johnson died the other day, and TV Guide noted that Paul Benedict(the very tall guy on the Jeffersons) had died, and both deaths were brushed off as hohums in the media. That happens, and the Big stuff of the week was economic news and political scandal, and the finding of the body of a little kid in Florida who may be the little girl who has been missing for several months. Congress did not give the car companies the billions they wanted to stay in business. The Governor of Illinois was busted for supposedly trying to sell Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder. And an old financier from NYC (he was once head of Nasdaq) was snitched on by his sons for running some kind of Ponzi scheme that lost at least fifty billion. On a news website some money expert said that common investers need not worry about getting affected by the fifty billion dollar loss because Madoff had only dealt with a small number of very rich people, and the only folks who would feel hurt by the scam were very rich people in Palm Beach. I have doubts about such Don't Worry About It statements. Maybe we were due for a cleansing from worshipping the Golden Calf which has been going on for a couple of decades, but the scourging will be painful for everybody. And that comment about the golden calf comes from a quote I read by FDR. I hope O does not get crushed by the financial crises and the foreign problems that wrecked the Carter regime. Oh, yes--an ice storm in New England has left about a million people without power. With most states broke or near it all that was needed was a giant weather disaster that will have to be paid for. I am going to close this blog entry now. Every thing I am writing about is some human misery. So, you all take care. Di di mau!