Great News/Bad News

Okay, it's been a little slow lately. Also, I am concentrating the usual creative energies into building a new business and earning a living. Nevertheless, we must have some fun....at others' expense. Fortunately, there's always some idiots around to poke fun at just when you need them.

• Great News: The "independent" Congressional Budget Office has confirmed that the new secret health-plan bill will actually shrink the deficit by arranging coverage for 29 million people currently not covered. Bad News: Congress will need to find other ways to grow the deficit.
• Great News: My phone interview last week with a major international company. The recruiter had a one track mind, seeking to know my past compensation. I avoided this discussion like the plague, but finally succumbed, since she threatened to hang up. Naturally, she eliminated me as being too expensive. When I mentioned the possibility of outsourcing the travel manager position to me, she ended the conversation. Strange News: that company's business: it's the global leader in outsourcing and off-shoring, especially to India.
• Great News: I have seen the new American economy and culture, and it works! Bad News: I was in Toronto, Ontario, Canada when I saw it working, a short crow-flight from Detroit, MI.
• Amazing News: President Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize! Bad News: Hilary will have to travel twice as far, twice as high and twice as fast, if she ever wants to get one of those things. For those who seem apoplectic over the award, be brave: Haldor Laxness got a Nobel too, although, admittedly, he did actually write some really long Icelandic novels. But, not even the Nobel Committee could finish one.
• Stupid News: On Sunday, The Yankees vanquished the Twins , while the dreaded Angels downed the Sox in Boston. So when do they begin the ALCS? Friday, despite the fact that the Angels were 190 miles from the Bronx. Stupider News: Where do moronic bankers, credit raters and regulatory agents go after they leave their posts? Major League Baseball Scheduling Department. Incredibly Stupid News: while the Denver Broncos football team was playing in daytime sun on Sunday, the Rockies had to play at night in below 30' cold. Rockies' fans did not looked pleased; they looked like Broncos' fans.
• Great News: The Baseball Hall of Fame has voted to relax its normal eligibility requirements: five years past retirement and actually playing, coaching, administering or announcing at the Major League Level. Amazing News: President Obama will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown next summer! 1.000 hitter, 0.00 ERA and never struck out. Ever. Now that's a perfect game!