Martin Luther King

Today is Martin Luther King Day. Hats off to him for all he did to get civil rights going forward. Ever since I was a kid I have been watching him and admiring his intelligence, courage and principals. He did so much to change the face of society from segregation to what it is supposed to be. I have never understood racism. It made no sense to me. That goes back to 1954. Yes, I actually thought about those things as a little kid.

I remember when the Govenor of Alabama, George Wallace, tried to continue segregation and was a total racist jerk back when I was in High School. I always felt that Martin Luther King should have been honored for his efforts. In fact, he was back in 1964 when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to change thngs in a non-violent way.

I always thought that he was very inspirational. I actually get a tear in my eye when I think about him and how we lost a seriously noble person when he was murdered. All the best to you Martin.

Hot Sauce

Yes, I actually like hot sauce. The Tabasco Chipotle is so good I could just drink it from the bottle. I also love the Cholula regular and chipotle flavors. For some really interesting flavors Slap You Silly User Friendly Habanero hot sauce is delicious. The thing that gets me confused about hot sauce is that there are so many people that seem to use hot sauce that is insanely hot. All about the heat not the flavor. I see that on Man v. Food all the time. He eats hot wings that are basically a test of your tolerance of pain. Not a goal of mine.

I took a business associate out for lunch once and he brought a bottle of hot sauce that was so hot it was completely inedible. I used a toothpick to get one drop and put it on a piece of meat. Ate it and had a burn so bad I couldn't even taste anything afterwards. Not what eating is all about. I think they make those hot by adding capsaicin extract which is the chemical that makes peppers hot. They produce it in a concentrate that is added to different hot sauces to make them hotter. Seems dumb to me.

Personally I use it to add complexities and additional deliciousness. . . I like the smoky flavor of the chipotle. Go to Buffalo Wild Wings and try the Honey BBQ wings and they are sweet and chipotle smoky. I also love the Louisiana brand hot sauce (LHS). It has a nice vinegar peppery flavor that is a nice complement to lots of things. It really makes anything tomato based exceptionally good. V8 juice, Clamato, tomato soup and plain tomatos. Slice them up and sprinkle on a liberal dose of LHS and bingo!!!! Yummy!!!

Motorcycle Riding

Yes, it is something I love to do. I  have been for over 48 years. I raced motorcycles for 12 years. I am good at it and I love riding around on backroads so I can stay away from all the distracted drivers on the roads today. It is so dangerous out there. Most motorcyclists (I'll call them riders to reduce the typing I have to do) are a bit distracted as well. You really have to keep yourself focused on everything that is a threat. I took a ride a while back and a guy in a car tried to kill me. Luckily for me I have that racing background and was alone on the bike (picture below).

It has ABS (Anti-lock Braking System) which I exploited to save myself. He was in the oncoming lane at an intersection waiting to turn. Once I got to about 40 feet away he turned left in front of me. I decided to use the technology the BMW has and hammered the brakes and swerved to the left to avoid him. I swerved back around behind him after passing his back bumper and was on my way alive and undamaged. I did scream at him and he gave me the friendly I'm sorry wave. Murderous bastard.

Had it been some less experienced rider on a big cruiser or touring bike I think things would've turned out a bit more sadly. Those types of riders and the bikes don't have the skills or ability to make those kinds of maneuvers. I do and no limping around for months or donating organs (which would be a privilege for me).

But, that is the point, be observant. Keep looking around, move your eyes. Look at the drivers to see what they are doing. Plan ahead. I call that "threading the needle" I did it that day and it saved me. Know where the needle is and where to go to do it. Never focus on the car turning in front of you. You will most likely suffer from what we racers referred to as rock fascination syndrome. If you are racing through a corner or down a straight and see a rock you tend to fixate on it and then you hit the darn thing. Look where you want to go and you'll do it better. It worked for me that day.

The really fun thing for me is on the backroads. Lots of interesting things to see and that is the reason I ride. Sitting on my bike on an Interstate (what we call the 'Slab') is too boring. The pictures in my older posts in the Archive section are great examples of that. I can hardly wait for the weather to change so I can get going again.

Satellite TV

After my observation on commercial TV I did a little more thinking about the Satellite Pay TV I subscribe to. Interestingly they all (yeah, cable & satellite) offer hundreds of channels to watch. I have almost fifty of them that are shopping networks. So, here I am paying a ton of money to watch lots of shopping channels. That is a serious groaner. Paging through them and the PPV (Pay Per View) ones is a total PITA (Pain In The A#$)for trying to look for something that is actually interesting to watch. Get to channel 32 and up to 200 and all of the ones between are shopping and PPV. As I get older and my memory is deteriorating it gets harder to memorize the many locations in the guide to go to. But, I do okay.

Humans and Our Origins

Interestingly, to me, there is more and more about how Neanderthal's were more inteligent and sophisticated than originally thought.

Getty Images - got it on Google

It used to be thought that they were in the lineage and went away as we became more developed and evolved. Back about 36 years ago I was having a conversation with a friend who was studying anthropology at SIU and we were talking about prehistoric humans. I suggested that the entire concept of apes to proto-humans to hominids to homosapiens was questionable.

My theory was that there were many varieties of humans and the more adaptive and smart ones continued to evolve. The others simply became extinct. Just an application of Natural Selection. It seems that now this concept is becoming the new idea of human history. Anthropologists have discovered that Neanderthal's were much smarter, sophisticated and social than previously thought. They have discovered remnants of vegetable and grains in the plaque scraped from the teeth of Neanderthals. This clearly demonstrates they used fire and ate not only meat. In Bob's opinion Neanderthals were a completely different family/species of humans and they simply weren't successful in evolving their lineage. Died out and were gone.

Modern Tech - A Brief Trip Down Memory Lane

Every once in a while I actually remember things. Recently the Apple iPad rang a bell for me. It brought back memories of the old William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy days of StarTrek. They had computer tablets that they used for everything.

Just like an iPad.

Browser Wars

After over 30 years of using computers and working in the IT (Information Technology) Industry I am a little confused about why all the Tech websites seem to participate in what I refer to as the Marketing wars. I will occasionally comment on these things since I am only interested in what works well and makes using various things simpler.

All the browsers have their respective strengths and weaknesses. I have used Netscape (yeah the really old beginning days of the Internet one) and  Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox and Opera and Chrome. They all have their features you love or don't love so much.

The speed of the browser is not really very important. The slowest one vs. the quickest one is a small period of time that most people won't even perceive. If various folks actually "test" the speed of pages loading in a browser window the results are more related to the server the page is coming from and the huge variability of the network speed. It changes constantly. That is why when you might be up at 4:00 in the morning and log into email and open up your home page it seem like everything goes so much faster then normal. That's because everyone else is sleeping and the network (yes, the Internet) is less saturated with everyone watching You-Tube and everything else.

The real issue to be focused on is the user interface. IE is pretty basic and works well for me. I like Opera as well. Lot's of features that you won't find anywhere else. Chrome is nice. Firefox is too. But, I have several plug-ins that I need and IE wins for me.

Observational Abilities

For some strange reason I have always been able to understand how optical illusions work, spot hidden objects and find the patterns in images. Somehow this morning I got the notion that perhaps the reason for that is because I have never had binocular vision. I switch from eye to eye. I imagine that is because I had what is referred to colloquially as crossed-eyes as a young child. The Opthamologist had me wear a patch over my left eye to try to strengthen the muscles that aim the crossed eye and get it to center up. So, maybe that is how my mind changed to monocular vision.

I do the optical thing quite a bit since I find it interesting. So go to http://games.yahoo.com/braingames/brain-teasers and play around a little.

TV the Vast Wasteland

Interesting that as I get older I am in fact getting cranky. One thing that is on my list of annoyances is television. After watching TV for 58 years I am at a point where I won't watch it much anymore. TV has always been referred to as "Commercial Television". To me that is a differentiator from free TV.

It used to be that a 30 minute TV show would have a commercial break at the 15 minute mark. Of course there would be commercials after the end, which was just before the beginning of the next show. Now, to me at least, Commercial Television is all commercials occasionally interrupted by a few minutes of the program I can't often keep my interest in. I actually timed things and there were 6 minutes of show and 3 to 5 minutes of commercials. So, the content is about 30-40% commercials. Groan. . .

One other example is when I am trying to watch a NASCAR race. I can't even watch 2 complete laps before they go to commercial. At the end we get to see that last few but I have to admit that when it is so interrupted all the time it isn't watching a race. It is, watching commercials for 4 hours. Bye Bye NASCAR and TV.

So then, not that you care, I just get frustrated and off I go into a rant. Feeling a bit mad at myself but it is not something I tolerate very well. TV is truly a vast wasteland. A good example of what I am ranting about is try watching anything in the morning. All commercials. They even come back from commercials and tell you what is coming up and go back to more commercials. So, sit around and enjoy them, I won't.

Earth, are we alone???

Just reading a little and apparently scientists are revising their thoughts on how many stars are in the universe. Apparently they now think there are 300 sextillion of them. That's 3 with 23 zeros. Also, the belief about the structure of galaxies being like the Milky Way are changing as well. Lots of things are different. Not going into all that since it isn't too interesting for most folks. How many dwarf stars vs. giants and gas giant planets etc. etc. etc.

Now the idea is that there could be as many as a trillion Earth-like planets out there. That immediately got me thinking that if there are some number of them that they are orbiting a star similar to ours at the same distance as we are from our star, that we refer to as the Sun and with the same tilt (axis of rotation) and other coincidental similarities that there might be lots more life out there. The next thing that I thought of is that given the formation of chemicals in the seas on them that perhaps there are other coincidental similarities. Amino acids, single cell micro-organisms (yeah, microbes). Then they evolve into proto life-forms. I am guessing that there are lots of dinosaur worlds out there. We would be really different if the dinosaur apocolypse hadn't occurred on Earth.

Not so sure that the mammals would've been able to become the dominant life form. With the meteor strike ending the dinos the surviving mammals got to develop and here we are. If we are lucky to have that in our history and they don't it would be really interesting to see one of those dino worlds. Evolution would have them evolved to some pretty amazing and dangerous (for us) efficiencies which would make them a seriously interesting subject for a Hollywood movie.

Lunch!

Went to lunch with my brother Rick today at a restaurant he likes. It is a Thai restaurant and it is the most amazing place I can imagine. The food is insanely delicious and the service was fantastic. I had the Panang Curry with Pork. It was the best curry I have ever eaten. I want to go there every day for the rest of my life. So, you should go there as well if you are within driving distance. It is named Thai Town. The address is:

574 Randall Road
South Elgin, IL. 60177

They have a website as well: http://www.thaitownelgin.com/

Airport Security

Getting another dose of the aggravation that is caused by the "Lame-Stream Media" (Thanks Sarah Palin) raising public outrage over the TSA increasing security. Making a big deal about the pat downs and body scans. In my opinion, yeah I almost always have one, this is improving security for air travellers. There have been an increase in the number of onboard events and the terrorists (yes they are even if they are American WASPs) are becoming more and more methodical and trickier in getting explosives onboard.

Do you recall the Lockerbie tragedy? The shoe bomber? The underwear bomber? The laser toner cartridge bomb? They're the ones you hear about and that is most likely only a fraction of the number of times weapons and illegal devices are getting on planes.

The TSA folks are doing their jobs and flying is safer because of that. If some deluded suicide bomber gets a device onboard and takes down another plane the LSM (Lame-Stream Media) will have a field day raking the TSA over the coals. That is what they want and how they operate. If they can raise public outrage and get the TSA to back down there is a better chance that a bomber will take a plane full of innocent people down and then they have a really big news event and will hammer the TSA mercilessly for not being effective in preventing it from having happened. They want that, not just quiet day to day life.

If they reported on all the good things that are happening and other non-negative news we would be happier and life would be smarter and better. They never will. They want big events.

So, in conclusion, keep it up TSA, don't back down. Make it safe. And I would like for the LSM stop doing newscasts of total chowder-heads whining about being patted down. Interview me so I can complement the TSA for doing a more effective job of making air travel safer.

Also, do a nice segment on something like how St.Jude is helping so many children fight serious illnesses and keeping them alive and getting them well. Also, go to a rural church social in the Mid-West somewhere and have a nice big meal while chatting with the folks and show everyone that there is a solid middle America out there not just constantly on the cell-phone, SUV (or BMW or whatever Daddy bought them) driving brain-dead Princesses and male chowder-heads. I am so sick and tired of the "Dumbing-Down" of America thing that is going on. That is the end of our social value system and you kids are on the way to a very different lifestyle.

That is what we need.

I Write Like

A good friend sent me a link to a website that can analyze your writing style and I did it. If you want to try it for yourself, take a trip to : http://iwl.me

I took three different posts from my Blog (yeah, this one) and each had a different result. I write like Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft and also Gertrude Stein. I never would've guessed I am that kind of writer.

So then, now that I know I have some actual talent lurking somewhere in my ever deteriorating brain it may be time to actually write something. A book. Stay tuned for more.

Game Changing Ideas

I was thinking about things I have thought of over the years and a couple of interesting ones come to mind. Back about 38 years ago I gave a guy an idea that changed drag racing in a really serious way. I was a motorcycle mechanic and a guy came into the shop one evening and it turned out he was the owner of the funny car "Chi-town Hustler". I talked with him and suggested that he could be really competitive if he tried slipping the clutch instead of 'lighting up" the tires all the way down the strip. I said we did that coming off the corners racing motorcycles to get a better drive off the corner and he did it. Hence, the "slipper" clutch was invented and developed which revolutionized drag racing completely. Yeah, I did it.

Another one of my ideas was in a conversation with a friend during lunch about 6 years ago. He is an amateur astronomer and our discussion was about the fact that astronomers see that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate and can't explain why. I am not an astronomer or theoretical physicist but offered up an idea. I think that, after reading an article on String Theory (which is now called M-Theory) that there are these enormous ultra dense multiple universes called membranes (or colloquially - 'branes') that are next to each other. Large and sort of flat, My theory is that 2 of them adjacent to each other "fluttered" and touched. this created the singularity at the touchpoint and they passed through one another creating a "bubble". The singularity was a form of special energy about the size of a proton (according to another article I read).

As the bubble expanded the intense gravity field of the branes was interacting with the singularity and pulled it apart. Hence the "Big Bang". In my intuitive opinion the bubble is growing and some remnants of the branes are the dark matter we are intermixed with and that intense gravity field is causing the universe to accelerate as it continues to expand. The timeframes are oddly different (since I read that the M-Verse(?) is 11 dimensional and I assume that could mean that the bubble in the branes is a few pico-seconds old in their timeframe and, what, about 14 billion years old in ours. So now you have another blast from the ever curious mind of Bob.

The fun of business travel

After changing positions within my company last year the experience of living on airplanes has ended. The really nice part is I love not travelling. I'm not afraid of flying, I love it. I actually took flying lessons in my younger days and wanted to be a pilot. The part I don't like is all the parking and waiting to get on the plane.

So, in order to ensure I don't have to go back to a life in the air I thought it would be a good idea to see if the Department of Homeland Security would think of offering up a voluntary ability to get on the no-fly list. Then I will happily avoid spending 300 hours a year in airports. Yeah thats an average of 4-6 hours per trip (60 per year or more). I leave for the aiport 3 hours prior to departure and just sit in the boarding area calmly doing email and calls instead of like some of my colleagues crawling through security calling at boarding time begging me to convince the gate agents not to close the door since they are on the way. I actually am tempted to offer the gate agents $20 to close it up so I can be shed of those chowderheads.

So, all in all I love to travel and like I said it is just the whole airport thing. So, enjoy sitting next to the princess with her little barky dog in the dog purse and all the screaming kids. I actually feel so sorry for the parents of those kids that for some reason start screaming their brains out as soon as the plane passes about 10,000 feet. Some of them keep it up all the way and others nicely calm down when Mom or Dad soothes them into the quiet zone.

Appropriate Audiences

I went to see the Leonardo DiCaprio movie Inception yesterday with my lovely wife and my son. Before it started as you all know we watch the trailers of the coming attractions. Each one has a tag stating that the preview is approved for appropriate audiences. I have to admit I am a bit confused by that. How do I know if I am an appropriate audience? Is there some website where you get the jist of what an appropriate audience is? Ha ha ha. . . The movie was pretty good. I give it a thumb up. Not 2.

The Sleeper has Awakened

I think it may have finally happened. I did have an Epiphany a few minutes ago. It is not about me, it is about society. I think I now understand why the Liberal Democrats want to force immigration reform. There is nothing wrong with anyone wanting to come to America to participate in our society and desiring the opportunity for success and a better way of life. I completely respect that. Much of this is focused on Latinos who have illegally crossed the border and have become an enormous burden on our social systems. Yes, they have. They go to the hospitals and have no money to pay or insurance. So, Medicaid picks up the tab and it is a fraction of the cost for the hospital. Because of that hospitals are losing money and descend into the inability to evolve and improve healthcare. They don't have the money to do it.

In spite of that I have met many Mexicans and most of them are good hearted, hard working people that just want to have a better standard of living and enjoy the American Democracy. That is a good thing.

So, with President Obama and the utterly corrupt "Pelosi Gang" on the hill apparently working to move us toward Socialism they need a way to restructure our society. This is really expensive and in spite of all the finger pointing President Obama has done trying to blame the Republicans the hard evidence directly from the Congressional Office of the Budget clearly show this to be completely untrue.



We are on the verge of massive tax increases (go check the Washington Post) which will crush our standard of living. If we allow all the folks that have entered illegally to enjoy citizenship through immigration reform, I think the Democrats believe we will then have a new lower class. Then the existing middle class will be changed to the new upper class. Our existing lower class will be the new middle class and the upper class will have had all their wealth stolen by the government and redistributed. Welcome to the new American Society. Redistribution of wealth, Socialism and sadly a new way of life most of us will not find acceptable. To me, that explains it all.

I'm now a Senior Citizen

Well, I just turned 60 and am sad that I no longer can visit with a variety of people from my youth. They've all passed on. I am sad because I miss them and if they were still alive, they would owe me considerable sums of money. A few of them bet me a million dollars I wouldn't make it to 30. As you can see from the picture I raced motorcycles and they figured that a wild kid like me would never make it to adulthood. SURPRISE!!! Here I am. Sad to say, I can now relate to why the seniors of my day were cantankerous and crabby. I have to admit I am a little sick and tired of all the dumbing down of America the media is accomplishing. We still need a different direction. More on that coming.

The media is so focused on anything that is able to be used and abused. Like the current Tiger Woods fiasco. Is he a good guy? How do I know. Is he a philanderer? Apparently. Is that any of my business? No, and I don't really care. I enjoy watching him play golf. He is possibly the best professional golfer ever. If he can't keep his pants zipped up it doesn't affect me. It affects his relationship with his wife whose picture is just to the right of Tiger below.

So, looking at her, I guess having a ton of money and traveling all the time creates plenty of opportunities Tiger to "sample" other interesting relationships (the physical kind). Personally, I can't understand why he would. She looks pretty interesting to me. But, none of my business and he will ultimately pay the price.

Me, now that I'm 60, not too interested in fooling around. Not many "takers" anyway. Although as a personal goal I decided it was time to improve and lose some of the tonnage. I had "hit" 310 pounds at my sad peak. Now, I am 70 pounds lighter and hopefully can keep that going. "Enormo must die" is my personal motto. What works for me is push back from the table. Eating is not fun. Also, exercise because that helps everything. I am getting keen to keep walking more and maybe even renew my membership at the Health Club. Hit the machines.

Now That it's Over

Well, now that we have our new President Elect it is time to stop the Republican hard right whining and start figuring out how to spend the next four years. He seems to be off to a good start, other than appointing Hillary as Secretary of State. Guessing that since he needed something to "offer" her for shutting down her campaign and the VP job wasn't really an option then the appointment as Secretary of State helps her fuel her campaign in 2012 or 2016. She gets national level political experience (which she grievously lacks, thank dog) and also International Affairs (not the kind Bill is always working on but the Department of State kind).

Personally I am not a fan of hers and feel it is a little sad that she is being groomed to position her as the next Democratic Presidential candidate and provide her with the opportunity to have the experience she (and Barack, candidly) lack in the World Political scene. I still don't think having the Clinton's back in the White House is a good thing. But, it is what it is.

So then, signing off and getting ready to sit back to watch the fun begin.

Politics and the media

With the election for our next Press-a-dent so near it is time to wake up from the daily distractions of work, home life and all the other things that normally occupy my mind and pay close attention to the realities of what I want politically for the next several years. McCain or Obama. What a choice. You might think I am in the "we'd be better off without a President than either of those idiots" but no. Candidly I need to make up my mind apart from the influence of the overwhelming onslaught of emails that from friends on the Republican side that show Obama as being the end of our American middle class way of life. From those on the Democratic side, McCain is pretty typically portrayed as the new Bush. Personally, after watching them in action in the debate last night I think they are both level headed and intelligent people who genuinely care about doing what is right. I think the real issue is, what IS right?

The things I think we all need some help on are understanding the key issues and what we really need our leaders to do to ensure we stay on track and prosper rather than sit by as the economy tanks and we watch our futures grow dim as our investments and homes lose rather than increase in value. I sure as hell know how I would lead. That'll be the next blog. The real issue here for me right now is the media and the candidates.

I am so disillusioned by the media's complete and utter lack of character, ethics and responsibility to report the news and not run a media campaign for Obama while doing everything in their power to attack and demean McCain and Palin. I am really checking out on the media. Television is no longer Bob's main past-time (actually it hasn't been for quite a while). All TV News programming is complete and utter bullshit and the programming is clearly getting in the way of advertising. Yep, another topic some other time.

What we need in the media are some new versions of my early influencers, pictures above, Edward R. Murrow, Dave Garraway, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. Why, you might ask? Because they were the bastions of editorial opinion and honest reporting. No talking heads there. What are the issues, who is involved, who is right and why, who is wrong and why? That is how it is supposed to be done. Sure they had producers and writers telling them what to say but I always got a sense that they had a lot of influence over the content and it seemed more real and down to earth to me.

Nowadays, the media is not doing that. The real change came during the Vietnam war. The media became a powerhouse and quickly began to believe their own B.S. Since then it has become all about the media and not about the down to earth reporting we the public deserve. Hence the talking heads we see now. So if you aren't "pretty", an actor and good at appearing sincere you can't do well. If you aren't a liberal Democrat, same deal, not going to do well.

Obama is their golden boy and I ask WHY!? He is clearly intelligent, articulate and I like him but he has a very poor record in voting the way he claims. He has repeatedly voted against tax cuts for middle income, elderly and farmers designed to help protect them from being overburdened tax-wise and he claims he is for tax cuts. Not too convinced by your claims last night Barack.

McCain, somewhat better record but interestingly, as many bills as Barack has not voted on John seems to be way more inclined to not vote. If you are interested in how I come to these conclusions try the voting database on the Washington Post site:

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/

For Barack specifically:

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/o000167/votes/

For John specifically:

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000303/votes/

The really disappointing thing about McCain for me is Senate bill 2371 which he failed to vote on that had a provision to establish a bipartisan committee to reduce and eliminate wasteful government spending. Interestingly it was a large bill with many provisions and John McCain was one of only two Republicans that failed to vote on the bill which was defeated by a 63-32 tally. There were 15 Republicans that chose to vote with the 46 Democrats against the bill. No Democrats voted for it. And if you are into the math, there were two Independents who also vote against it. But I digress, back to the media.

So do you listen to and believe Katie Couric and Brian Williams and the other talking heads? Not me. After the few minutes I watched of the Sarah Palin interview Katie conducted I have had my beliefs firmly reinforced watching the perky news anchor trying (well, actually working, hard) to back Sarah into a corner. I really like and admire Sarah Palin. She stood up and basically confronted Couric. She has strong opinions but still seems open minded. She has a solid track record and is truly impressive. Ask the corrupt politicos she went after and who are now in jail where they belong. Her heart is in the right place.

So all in all, I am de-marketing oriented. I research major purchases and consider the numbers on my own. I have no strong compulsion to buy something because I saw it on TV. Sorry numbskulls, marketing doesn't work on Bob. Big SUV, not a status symbol to me, rather an embarrassment instead. Big giant house, too bad for all you meatheads that overbought and "took advantage" of the "adjustable rate" mortgages. Did you think the rates were going to go down? Sad for the folks that got snookered because they were too ignorant to understand the error of their ways and now have mortgage payments that may have doubled in the last year and they could barely make them before.

The media should have been looking at the mortgage market and doing specials on how to understand and do it right. Advising folks to stay away from the low interest "deals". Did they? Hell no. So, they need a wake up call from us, the people, to force them to stop being so full of themselves and get back to reporting the news and events rather than twisting everything to create the controversy they so desperately want because it helps them sell the ad time. You think Wall Street is the only place where the common good and what is truly honorable and right is completely disregarded by the "greed heads"? Nope, the media is in the lead there as far as I am concerned.