Last week April 15th not only marked the day for our collective Taxes to be mailed but it was also the day where teabagging rallies/protests and tea-parties were happening across the country.   This post is not politically motivated, so I’m not going to talk about the virtues/vices of these events or whether either of the two political parties in the US are right or wrong in their position on the Obama stimulus package.  If you’ve read any of my posts on the economy you’d know where I stand on the way the government spends money.  (more…)

I held off making a comment about the $50Billion Ponzi scammer’s name Bernard Madoff (when I found out his name was actually pronounced “Made-off” vs “Madd-Off”..I though how perfect that someone by that name “made off” with $50B of innocent people’s money.. poetic, universal humor, but after learning that the US Secretary of Education’s name is Margaret Spelling, I felt like writing a quick blurb about how our names are just another element in how the universe works in magical and mysterious ways. These are just two that come to my mind today, but if you look deep and hard enough I’m certain that you’ll find many more that follow the same patterns. I don’t know about you all, but I see them all the time.  Enjoy!