Steve In Ink - 2008’s Lessons For 2009 (Philadelphia Inquirer 12/31)
With a Happy New Year to y’all I give you some of the lessons 2008 was kind enough to leave for us to learn from…
2008 provided an embarrassing, albeit sometimes disastrous cascade of evidence that so-called brilliant minds tweren’t so brilliant. One need not go any farther that former Federal Reserve chairman and former market genius Alan Greenspan who was “shocked” to find a flaw in his no-regulations-needed-here ideology or that the Gray Lady of Spoof, National Lampoon spoofed their stock value right into a federal securities fraud case. The good news is that all those mistakes, blunders and seeming outright failures hold much promise for the rest of us to gain Read more
2008 Unable to Complete Year: Alan Colmes to Take over
2009 REFUSES TO TAKE OVER
In what could cause a solar calendar catastrophe not seen since the missing June 5th debacle of 1914, lawyers for 2008 say that their client will be stepping down as a measurement of time two weeks short of the standard 52 weeks.
“While it was always 2008’s intention to finish out the Gregorian calendar’s contracted 365 days, the unforeseen devastating events and tragic losses have left my client in too weakened a condition to fulfill the entire commitment,” said attorney Chambers Brothers explaining the stress 2008 has been Read more
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