Yesterday my inbox bogged down with the tremendous volume of email. I was expecting some large images. So I tolerated the horrible decline in performance as I perused the usual web sites. However, after a good half hour I still hadn’t received a single message, so I was forced to leave the room, and continue […]

Loyal readers will no doubt remember previous tirades about the ‘Bank of the Brain Dead.’ Let me take this opportunity to comment that back when they were California Savings and Loan they were pretty good. Well, maybe not actually good, but they were a perfectly normal, ordinary financial institution. Then somebody bought them, and the […]

I suspect that it’s no great insight to claim that pets are a great deal like children. In at least as much as the proud ‘parent’ is firmly convinced of inherent intelligence and superiority. I know that my dog is a consistent under achiever at every new ‘Dog IQ’ test that comes down the pike. […]