In my never ending quest to clean up my files by deleting old articles, and rewriting/expanding and transfering preferred ones to other locations, I came across the following summary provided to a non-paying client. Since I like to make use of everything upon which I’ve expanded time and energy,... read more

The Sheriff of Wall Street has quietly slipped out of town in craven shame with his pants back up and his black socks still on, embarrassed by a lynch mob reaction from political opponents to news of his paying for play, leaving them feeling he had badly misplayed his hand and overstayed his mandate... read more

Attorneys are trained and educated people who earn a good living either giving advice and practicing law or, as often as not, some practical combination of the two. Simple as it sounds you need knowledge and experience, just like any other skilled profession such as accounting, medicine or even education,... read more

I last wrote about the stock market and finance at the end of February.  Since then, time has played ahead and the markets have traded in their fashion but whether anything has changed depends on where you come from and what you bring to this discussion. The Dow is at twelve thousand five hundred approximately,... read more

The federal government is now looking into helping people keep housing they apparently cannot now afford.  No detailed explanation has been given for the cause of this problem.  No financial statements have been issued.  No one is keeping official track of the money involved in keeping risky debtors... read more

The Ultimate Solution For The Dreaded Black Screen of Death or otherwise known as the “why doesn’t explorer.exe load up when i boot vista?” solution. Let me preface the following with this statement: It took me FOREVER and a day to find out how to fix my problem. One day, i decided... read more

Here’s a good one.  Somebody figured out private school educated, college trained and Harvard law school graduate Barack Obama is an elitist.  Like he’s not poor and has a partisan outlook that doesn’t suffer fools lightly.  What can you do.  It takes more than a village, it takes all kinds. It... read more

The price of crude oil has gone past one hundred ten dollars a barrel on the commodities exchange. A few stories are predicting it will shoot for one hundred twenty-five dollars a barrel. Why so expensive? You’d think that Washington would have come up with a permanent, cost effective solution at... read more

For the past five years or so, I have been working with school age children to help them do better in school and improve their reading and math. I started out by volunteering with brighter children at The Harlem Children’s Zone and Brandeis High School in Manhattan. I went on to paid work with foster... read more

The entertainment area of Coney Island appears headed for a major overhaul according to news reports. I have lived nearby on West 5th Street, actually West 6th, which also goes by the name Shell Road, for around forty years, give or take some stops on the way.  The main drag in Coney Island is 14th... read more