Apparently, it’s not just the banks. It’s not just the automakers. Not just the newspapers. This, from today’s Wall Street Journal: Shoppers continue to pare back spending even on basic household staples, resulting in lower-than-expected sales for Procter & Gamble Co. and Colgate-Palmolive Co. The consumer-products giants are responding by raising prices to keep profits […]
The 24-hour news and/or business channels, which can’t fill the time with analyses and opinions — fresh information only takes a couple of minutes — more frequently use predictions to round out the cycle. Can you take their forecasts to the bank? Can your bank then take them to the Fed? Never mind the truth, […]
There’s been e-talk among the membership about renaming the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. I was for it, liked some of the proposals, but now I’m agin it. It’s not that I’m sore that my suggestion, International House of Toast (nod to Bob and Ray) was ignored. We would be following the path of a […]
This is dogging me. Now that we have a pup (14 months, actually) joining our two cats, our role in the world is changing fast. My Beloved and I are seen differently. We now number in the society of dog owners, as collegial and helpful, nipping and hypocritical, a group as humanity as a whole. […]
Passover ends at sundown today, its eighth day. Just before the festival week of Pesach began, local stores that carry some kosher products year-round — and a few more items come early spring — began running out of unleavened bread. Again. Must be those Christians. Northwest Arkansas only has a few Jews, who surely are […]
DATELINE DREAMLAND — We must have gotten lost. My wife and I were on the road. It was a long trip, and it seemed to be in a foreign country, although we had a common language with the locals. We pulled over, rather than get more disoriented, and soon saw a native family in the […]