Think of this as Volume 12, Number 10 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. A quiet economic war is now being fought and the future of Europe hangs in the balance. As with much of the Cold War this struggle is mostly happening in secret. Unlike the Cold War (until, as ...

Think of this as Volume 12, Number 9 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. At ZDNet Healthcare I get this kind of crap all the time: obama is a liar and traitor to his oath of office. dems are traitors to the US Constitution, helped by RINOs. the world will pay the pri...

Filed under: Entertainment, Celebrity, Cheat Sheet, News Our roundup of celeb gossip so you can keep up with your girlfriend. Samuel L. Jackson has officially signed on to play Nick Fury in "Iron Man 2," "The Avengers," "Thor," "S.H.I.E.L.D," probably "Darkhawk," and pretty much every Marvel movie u...

I must admit I missed the whole Rick Santelli rant on CNBC this week. Most of my neighbors are Wall Street types who probably agree with Santelli. However I’ll go with John Amato of Crooks and Liars, Santelli needs to own that he is the loser and if it wasn’t for the gasbag insider crowd...

Think of this as Volume 12, Number 8 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. As bad as financial reporters, analysts and experts were when the market was going up they are worse when it's going down. Let's start with what we know. Money is a store of value but trillions ...

There's a lot of talk about author branding. I have three brands on my butt (OUCH!) -- Lorraine Bartlett, L.L. Bartlett and Lorna Barrett. So far, the Lorna Brand has done the best. But don't count my other personas out......

Obama to shift focus to budget deficit....... Full story at Wall St. Journal: "He has scheduled a "fiscal-responsibility summit" on Feb. 23 and will unveil a budget blueprint three days later, crafted to put pressure on politicians to address the country's surging long-term debt crisis." "It's impor...

Think of this as Volume 12, Number 7 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. Every crisis President adopts Abraham Lincoln as their personal political savior. The first Roosevelt wore a ring with a lock his his hair, the second hired a Lincoln biographer to write his spe...

It was a miracle that we were even talking phone to phone. My friend Deborah and I are like most creative people these days – overcommitted. I heard the edge of anger in her voice when she told me that we never see each other anymore. It was true. We hadn’t seen each other. It wasn’t for wanti...

Image via Wikipedia After reading Mark Bittman’s latest - Food Matters - Sue has put us all on a steady diet of Bulgar wheat and organic spinach. Just kidding, the Bulgar wheat is pretty good and the spinach adds some much needed texture. But seriously, the whole exercise, along with the garde...