I have had anxiety for as long as I can remember. I can recall having that disassociation or whatever it's called feeling when I was little. It was rare back then though as it never happened that often. Basically it had gotten worse after graduating high school. And, after having gone to college num...

newVideoPlayer("/drdoom_gawker2.flv", 506, 423,"");Amid the weakest stock-market close in 12 years, Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini decided to scare everyone further, by telling CNBC our depression will last three years, unless maybe we void all mortgages. Roubini reiterated that "most" American financia...

The economic meltdown is supposed to "reenergize [the] creative economy" of New York by breaking the city's expensive obsession with finance. Instead, it's wrecking artists' best shot at wealth: Through Larry Gagosian. The top-tier art dealer, who bridges the worlds of art and finance, seems panicke...

Nerds: Get your Opinion-o-matics(tm) out and start straightening me out but good. Because my hard working, never met him cyberbud Cool-Mo-Dee points us over to Crosseyed Cyclops where one can find the complete run of EC comics' PANIC, which....get ready nerds.....is as good as the EC MADs. You may f...

Update to my original post re the site's classification as a 'hate site' on some work firewalls. From Websense : The site you submitted has been reviewed. We have found that it is best classified accordingly: http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/ - Message Boards and Forums So out of all the classifie...

All of the government's pesky market intrusions have people snapping up copies of Atlas Shrugged like they were bailout packages. Since it's not like Ayn Rand's laissez-faire fantasies got us into this mess. Former Fed chair Alan Greenspan, architect of the endless free credit of the 2000s, was famo...

“The hardest part of all this is my loss of security and my lack of control over my own finances and future. I feel vulnerable and completely powerless to change any of this. It angers me that other people are determining my fate. Especially since they are doing such a pathetic job of it.� ~Dawn...

Ever since my 12th January post about the Prince Harry brouhaha (the last one), I've had mails from various readers pointing out that their employer or local authority web filter software now classifies me as a 'hate site'. At the time I presumed it was because I'd actually used the word that Prince...

Ultimately, all recessions and depressions resolve themselves into crises of confidence. The instant, global, 24/7 communications of today make them ever more so. President Obama, in his pursuit of liberal big-government spending, has totally neglected the role of the president of the United States ...

There’s a lot to be angry about these days. ➢ My retirement fund is gone because of the greed of others. ➢ I lost my job while my boss gets a bonus. ➢ I’ve saved all my life, lived within my means and yet the irresponsible guy in default gets bailed out! Angry yet? In the blogosphere l...