Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First Moon of the New Year<\/p>\n
Costa Concordia.\u00a0 A sinking, listing cruise ship sends shivers down the spine of any cruise passenger.\u00a0 Those lifeboat drills, the one you grumbled about when you walked to your lifeboat station?\u00a0 Turns out they’re important.\u00a0 Standing on the promenade deck with others, looking around wondering how foolish you look wreathed in your bright orange life vest, seems a lot less foolish now.<\/p>\n
Romney pays 15% tax rate?\u00a0 What’s wrong with him?\u00a0 Can we afford a president who isn’t clever enough to avoid taxes altogether?\u00a0 Inquiring minds.<\/p>\n
Obama ineffective?\u00a0 Doubtful.\u00a0 Health care reform.\u00a0 Out of Iran.\u00a0 Got Osama.\u00a0 Finished bailing out the economy.\u00a0 I may not like the bail out, giving money to oligarchs who fail so they can turn around and oligarch again seems backwards when thousands of people have lost their homes and unemployment remains stubbornly high.<\/p>\n
Yet.\u00a0 A deep depression, pulling down the rest of the world’s economies, is in no one’s self-interest.\u00a0 The targets, not the fact or size of the bailout, is what bothers me.<\/p>\n
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