Reviewed by François May
Perhaps it is a folly à un but I see in this film quite a bit more than what seemed to have met the eyes of most of the reviewers. It has been labeled everything from a complete miss to a somewhat Allenesque gag fest.
If that is so, why did I [...]
The cost of my Medicare part B premium and that of most of my\ acquaintances has far exceeded the Cola increase for the past four years. This is so because the law to which you refer was abrogated by an addendum to the drug bill passed in the middle of the night. The price of [...]
Unbeknownst to most Americans, the US government has been working on a project which due to its sensitive nature has been given no publicity.
Most farmers in the Midwest have been spending substantial sums on synthetic fertilizer products; this in turn has raised farming costs and food prices. In former simpler days, crop raising farms were [...]
The recent so called “credit crunch” has caused consternation world wide. It began when certain financial instruments, called CDO’s, started to “lose value” and eventually had no value at all. People started to ask: just what has value? Stocks fell, gold rose and the panic was on. While everyone has an explanation, no one is [...]
When Arnold Schwartznegger was running for the California governorship, he imported Warren Buffett to give his campaign, he hoped, some financial patina. Mr. Buffett imediately started fulminating about how the mansion he owned in Laguna Hills, California, was taxed way below his, in his words, rather humble home in Omaha Nebraska. He blamed this “discrepancy” [...]
How often have you head someone say: “I make 100k a year”. It sounds good doesn’t it, but it is not true, regardless of of what your w2 states at the top line. That is so because it is not the top line that matters. What matters is what is left for you to spend [...]
When one buys a knock-off, one admits one’s inferiority. A plethora of web sites advertise knock-off watches and other imitation luxury goods. Anyone buying these items is essentially saying: “I can’t afford the real stuff, so I will settle for an imitation because that is all I am worth” It would be the same as [...]
Yes thank God for the Irak war. If President Bush and his acolytes had not invaded Iraq and thus had not seen the disaster which occurs when middle east lands are occupied, they would be now planning an attack on Iran. An attack on Iran would of course lead to a cascade of world [...]
When Syria abandoned Lebanon under pressure, I warned that it would obviously lead to a replay of when Lebanon was torn apart by what is called sectarian violence but what is really a set of disputes as to which Witch Doctor is right. Syria was keeping the peace in Lebanon even though it was exploiting it. Now [...]
If you know what a venn diagram is , you are one of the few who can park a car and feel reasonably sure you will not be fined by rapacious city administrators. As you anxiously scan the street for a spot to park and eventually slide in carefully between two driveways, you note that a [...]