Filed under: Money & work, Resources In 1956, Coach Jerry Sacharski couldn't turn away the little guys who showed up wanting to be part of his summer baseball program, so he started the first PeeWee T-ball league to teach the six -to-eight-year-old set the fundamentals of baseball and a thing or...

A consistent media meme since Election Day has been that Barack Obama was inheriting a recession that some believe began as far back as December 2007. Since then, despite various rescue plans from his Administration, and the passage of a $787 billion stimulus package, the stock market has continued ...

This is interesting. NBC and the Wall Street Journal commissioned a poll about the Obama Presidency. The numbers appear to show that Barack Obama is enjoying unprecedented support at a time when the Republican Party is seen as inept at solving economic problems. Well, that’s how the poll is re...

There was a time in this country when a snow storm didn’t throw airline travel into a tailspin for 2 - 3 days.  The Atlanta airport was just crazy.  More on this later. Rick Santelli’s rant that got so much publicity may have been planned.  Right wing billionaires were probably behind...

Today's Mark Penn "Microtrend": lots of people are out of work! Well, that is just a "trend." The "micro" bit is that the sort of people the famous pollster knows personally are out of work! Not Penn himself, obv, or his friends from the Clinton campaign, all of whom are working for Obama or Mike Bl...

I am not new to social media, having been in newsgroups and chat rooms since the early 90s. I’m also not new to information overload, as I’ve always been a news junkie and a voracious reader. But every once in a while, my life changes with respect to how I give and receive information, a...

Market analysts were puzzledwhen Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) paid $650 million for Newsday last May. Almost one year later $400 million of write-down, it was obviously a bad move, but Cablevision's latest decision makes their initial purchase look like Seward's deal for Alaska. Cablevision just announce...

Is Singapore’s mainstream media putting words in the prime minister’s mouth? You don’t see Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong saying there will always be a place for traditional media in presenting trusted, unbiased and informed opinions, as reported by the Straits Times and Today. That’s what t...

There are a lot of famous anecdotes about our 36th president, and a strange number of them involve the bathroom. In one, a female reporter is trying to get Johnson to answer some questions, and Johnson agrees on the condition that she hold his pecker while he pee; in another, he goes to relieve hims...

. BETTER YET, BOYCOTT MURDEROUS NY POST & FOX NEWS PARENT,NEWSCORP: DUMP THEIR STOCK DEPORT RUPERT MURDOCH, ENEMY ALIEN Revoke Racist Australian Nazi's Green Card, Divest Him Of All His U.S. Holdings First of all, dump NewsCorp stock. Arrange to purge News Corp from all financial holdings and de...