Anyone old enough to handle money knows investments are a craps shoot, but I never dreamed I’d come to think of the American financial system as a casino, with the most reassuring phrase in the English language being Member FDIC. That was the past week in a nutshell and we waited and waited to hear from the guy in the White House, bringing to mind thoughts of Nero fiddling while Rome burned. When he finally addressed us, it was little more than 200 words which did nothing to erase that mental image.
John Darkow of the Columbia Daily Tribune knows where the buck stops.
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Classic touch of black humour there, Ella. Almost British in its darkness, in fact.
Especially given the connection with the weather.
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Hi, roads! Black humor’s about the only humor I can muster over this blasted situation. My next Flip-flop Award is going to be the entire Republican Party. Seriously. I have something good!
Wow. I’ll look forward to that.
The Conservative Mayor of London, Boris Johnston, has himself undergone a bit of a Damascene conversion to ecological causes since election last May. He has always been a professed and outspoken climate change denier, but now faces the responsibility of implementing the city’s environmental plan.
A brave new initiative followed in response. Boris now tells us that we should all build roof terraces. Imaginatively radical or what? And so convenient for supping the Chardonnay (always assuming that it stops raining, just for a moment).
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I still don’t have a good handle on Boris. Is he out of his depth? And I can imagine how roof terraces are going over with those whose primary concern is keeping the roof over their heads. Period.
Ah, politicians….