History student

Comcast / AT&T Anti-Consumer Proposal Doomed to Fail

Comcast is one of the more dysfunctional corporations in the country, which reflects the relationship of the father and son who own a great deal of it. I will not allow them in my house. They do business by throwing their weight around, and to be honest "Uncle Vinnie" in Chicago had better taste.

Book Review: The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997

When I first saw the review title, I assumed that the United States was a continuation of the British Empire, and now our influence is waning. Britain's influence since WWII has been cultural, and very recently economic. America's has been military, economic, and cultural to a far greater extent, but we are the British Empire, Part 2.

Red Friday: Coming to a Mall Near You

I realize that all you folks east of Indiana really think you are the country, and what happens there is reality....for you. You live there, I don't; neither do another 160,000,000 Americans. Some of us haven't even been there. Out west the economy is fairly healthy and even expanding in some states. So all you folks from Apalachia, including N.Y.C., take your Prozack, have a martini, stop whining, and get to work.