WHEN SPORT BECOMES BUSINESS
The recent NFL draft reminded me sport is definitely not entertainment or a recreational pastime anymore, it is a business. Fancy twenty-one year olds being signed up for $50 million contracts and society thinks that is quite okay. Many just answer, “Man, this is America. It is simply capitalism at work!” This disease has spread [...]
ROLL ON SPRING; I’VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS WINTER
Europe and America are still in the grips of cold bleak weather with no sign of Spring arriving just yet. The Southern Hemisphere has been basking in one of best summers on record. The Copenhagen get together in January ended up a disaster for the Al Gore lovers. The Northern Hemisphere weather could not have [...]
EIGHTY-TWO YEAR OLD LEE IACOCCA STRIKES OUT
One of America’s great 20th Century industrial titans and personalities had some interesting things to say about the current economic mess we are in. Much of what he had to say was disparaging towards President Obama and the Democratic Party, but even after discounting those political comments, he was on the money about many things, [...]
AN ENGLISH “INSTITUTION” BECOMES A DEBT RIDDEN SUBSIDIARY OVERNIGHT
Even in Great Britain, a country which has had culture snatched from it by indiscriminate immigration and being a member of the EU, is up in arms over losing Cadbury’s a 200 year-old Birmingham-based “institution” majority-owned and run until recently by the Quaker Cadbury, to plastic cheese maker Kraft Foods. Kraft, thanks to Wall Street [...]
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