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  • There’s a Beggar at the Door, It’s Your Banker
    6 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    There’s a Beggar at the Door, It’s Your Banker By David Glenn Cox
    My parents used to tell me about the last great depression, I vividly remember my father explaining to me how the landlady would come to beg his parents for the rent. Not to ask for the rent or demand the rent but beg. My grandparents would give her whatever they had at the time, fifty, seventy-five cents. She would leave, joyous for a small percentage of the five-dollar rent.
    She was happy because it was her grocery (…)

  • The Man Nobody Wanted
    5 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    There is something strange going on in the political landscape of America. Something both parties see as a threat to national security, well to their national security at least. The candidates of both major political parties strike terror into the hearts of both political parties’ leadership for the same reason, and for opposite reasons. Last year it was a foregone conclusion that the Democratic nominee would be Hillary Clinton, no one doubted it for one minute, she (…)

  • Operation Canned Goods
    3 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Operation Canned Goods By David Glenn Cox History is written by the victors, that much is true. Not only are the valiant deeds of the victors made public but the crimes of the vanquished as well. The Spanish American War was predicated on the premise that Spanish radicals had planted explosives on the American battleship, USS Maine. The American ambassador described the negotiations, in his diary of that day, as going well and exceptional progress being made. But with the death of the (…)

  • I know! Let’s Rape Grandma!
    1 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    I Know! Let’s Rape Grandma! By David Glenn Cox
    With the current subprime crisis, most lenders don’t sleep well at night. For years they lived an idyllic life style, lending out a dollar and getting back a buck and a quarter. Come in late and leave early; only a pimp had it better. But bankers never had to contend with the cops or wayward hookers. Like a drug dealer they just stood on the corner and waited for the suckers to come to them.
    Not that bankers don’t do good things for a (…)

  • A Ship’s Smoke on the Horizon
    28 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Ship’s Smoke on the Horizon By David Glenn Cox
    The lost and stranded are always grasping for survival, it is human nature. Ernest Shackleton, lost in the Antarctic in 1914, gave his men a speech promising them only survival. And to emphasize the point he tore a single page from the Bible, a page that promised salvation, and threw down the rest of the book into the snow. Banished were any other ideas, only certain salvation was to be contemplated. It was a masterstroke of leadership, (…)

  • The Mother of All Dumb Ideas
    27 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Mother of All Dumb Ideas By David Glenn Cox We’ve all had dumb ideas in our past and I don’t exempt myself from this. I once threw Gunk engine degreaser on the floor to degrease it. Just one thing, I forgot to turn off the pilot light on the water heater first. Dumb? Man, that was dumb. After I got the fire put out my boss asked me, "Did you learn anything today?" I slowly shook my head and humbly answered, "Yes, yes I did." But my mistake was an error, not of comprehension but of (…)

  • The Gray Side of the Mirror
    24 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Gray Side of the Mirror By David Glenn Cox
    The truth lives in the gray side of the mirror, rather than reflect the truth it absorbs it. Rather than accept the truth it absolves it, rather than championing truth it only bears it. The gray side of the mirror is the unpresented side, the side kept in the dark just as we are kept in the dark, shoved between frame and wall, between dark and light. Unasked, unnoticed, unrequited.
    Like the Shroud of Turin, its facets and details are only (…)

  • Watching the Dinosaurs Fall
    22 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Watching the Dinosaurs Fall By David Glenn Cox
    The motivation for this comes from an article written by Martin Wolf of the Financial Times and he told the truth, mainly. I won’t dispute a single fact or figure but in his article, “America’s economy risks mother of all meltdowns” he comes to us as a prognosticator, predicting the future of the things that will be.
    He wants to be the ghost of Christmas future when in fact he is the ghost of Christmas present. Come then, touch the hem of my (…)

  • The Rockets Red Glare
    21 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Rockets Red Glare By David Glenn Cox
    The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Gosh, they really do think we’re stupid, all of us, not just the Fox viewers. Our protector, big bad bullyboy George, is going to protect us from an errant spy satellite. Its orbit is decaying and no mortal can judge where it might fall to Earth. Now considering that since the Earth’s surface is 2/3rds water, George thinks that, for safety’s sake, we must fire a missile (…)

  • The Jewel in the Crown
    19 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Jewel in the Crown By David Glenn Cox
    According to the Wall Street pundits, a stock market correction is anytime that the market goes down 10%. Since October we’ve had two corrections and have started on a third. The Wall Street Journal reports that 8 billion dollars have fled from US stock investment portfolios. In finance all good things are bad things and all bad things are good things. The escaping capital has reduced the volatility of the market, like when the big winner leaves (…)