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FOOLED ONCE? FOOLED TWICE? WHAT’S NEXT

Fooled once happens to the best of us, and everyone else. Then you get fooled again and it’s different, but not for you because you might be blinded by love, money, power, then more love, more money, more power. If that’s your excuse, it’s not everyone’s. Love and power are nice, but the driver is, […]

WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT JAY GATSBY?

The Great Gatsby patrols the modern world with Jay Gatsby walking point. (Just finished Hemingway’s Movable Feast. Scott Fitzgerald came in at the end. He and Papa were buddies in Paris before Zelda slipped a gear. In 2011 Paula McLaine wrote a novel called The Paris Wife about the same time. Read both books for […]

AARP POINTS THEIR MONEY FINGER

Do you really expect celebrities to invest wisely?   What’s easier, shooting fish in a barrel or making fun of famous people losing their money? If most of us live lives of quiet desperation, the media turns up the sound for the loud ones. And nothing gets louder than rich-man failure in America. Show business people losing […]