*.><#@! You can now go Tweet all the obscenities you want via Tweetie. Apple has reversed its stand about the update (to Tweetie 1.3) and allowed it to go through. I understand the person responsible for the original… er…. um… judgment call is being forced to download and use every fart ...

The folks minding the Apple App Store for the iPhone and the iPod Touch must be fruitcakes. They haven’t gone as far as the headline of this post suggests, but they might as well have. Today comes word that they have banned the update to the Twitter app, Tweetie. The reason? Users might type an ob...

Yes, this is Apple’s fault. By allowing the App Store to be overrun with Fart apps (you know the apps that do nothing but make fart sounds), they’ve unleashed the decline of civilization as we know it. Apparently some kid brought a fart noise machine (no word on what it was) into a town council ...

Word is that a plea deal for swindler and scam artist Michael Madoff is in the works. While this may be the way our legal system works, I think this is a bad idea. Madoff should be indicted, brought to trial and forced to endure the rigors of the entire episode in public. Cruel? Perhaps. Isn’t a g...

Some Sunday morning reading to share, hopefully not jejune. Frank Rich looks at the political happenings in the wake of Obama’s speech, Jindal’s reply and the budget outline. Rich is unusually cogent in some of his analysis and anyone who column that describes Jindal as “smug and jejune� des...

The Obama administration released an outline of its budget today and of course every third grader could have predicted the resulting hue and cry that came out of the Republicans, as well as the chorus of defenses that the Democrats were singing. It’s a shame the Republicans don’t have any imagin...

Reading the dismal economic news and struggling through a difficult third quarter here where are sales and donations are down at Wayside Theatre, there is an interesting trend that we, and some of our sister theatres are seeing. Theatres that run during the summer months or begin their seasons in th...

I’m no real estate expert and I’m no financial expert. We keep hearing that if a foreclosure happens next door to a house where its owners have been “playing by the rules� and paying their bills, that it affects the value of all those homes in the neighborhood, whether they are doing the rig...

For the first time in my life I think I’m about to tune out. It’s not that I’ve got enough on my hands trying to keep things afloat in my own end, I do.That’s not why. The reason is simple really. Every day, every hour, basically almost every minute we get constant commentary on the crazines...

As I continue to swim upstream on a number of fronts and watch news items fly by me heading the other way on the current, I catch and grasp some of what’s going on, and try to play catch up when I can take a brief pause now and then. Here are a random collection of thoughts on a random collection ...