Love the one you're with

-Stephen Stills

2008 hasn't been a fun year. A recession was coming, but greedy and self-interested leaders brought us to the brink of a depression.

I'm angry about the shape we are in. I want to make sure it never happens again.

Faded photographs,
Covered now with lines and creases

-Dennis Yost and the Classics IV

Former ESPN announcer and basketball coach Jim (Jimmy V) Valvano set up a foundation for cancer research after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer in June of 1992.
...

It comes down to reality - and it's fine with me 'cause I've let it slide . . .
I'm in a New York state of mind.

-Billy Joel

Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain wants a $10 million bonus for 2008. It is not going to happen...

Never understood that ain't no good, you shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.

-Bob Dylan

Author Malcolm Gladwell's career path reminds me of 1970's rock star Peter Frampton.

In 1976, Peter Frampton released Frampton Comes Alive. Critically acclaimed, it was one...

It's a lesson to me, the ablers and the beggars and the thieves

-The Grateful Dead

If you read my book, <u>Son of a Son of a Gambleru>, you'll know that my childhood was filled with beggars, thieves and other unusual characters.

"It's a lonely, lonely road we're on
This side of paradise."

-Bryan Adams

My late father was a professional gambler. Towards the end of his life, he was active in helping at a soup kitchen in Cincinnati, which was run by the Sisters of Charity.

And a white blinding light
Makes it all seem so right
And you feel like the king of the hill

-Roger McGuinn

At the beginning of John F. Kennedy's administration, Vice President Lyndon Johnson told Speaker Sam Rayburn about the well educated, Ivy League aides that Kennedy had...

And it went on yesterday and it's going on tonight
Somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right

-Bob Seger

People want to compare this recession to the recession of 1981. But there are differences. In 1981, we didn't have payday lenders, tax anticipation loans and...

One little problem that confronts you,
got a monkey on your back.
Just one more fix, Lord, might do the trick.

-Lynyrd Skynyrd

I saw a pathetic story about golfer John Daly and how he continues to screw up his life. He has blown...

"Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats"

-Carrie Underwood

It's certain now. Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss did not get a majority for re-election.
If he wants to hold on to his Senate seat, he will have to defeat challenger Jim Martin...

Credit Cards in the world of taxpayer-owned banks

"meet the new boss. Same as the old boss." -The Who

The American people ponied up $700 billion to supposedly bail out some big banks on Wall Street. So far, we have not seen the banks what banks are supposed to...

"Running on Empty. Running into the sun but I'm running behind."

-Jackson Browne

Internal Revenue Code section 401(k) is the only section of the US tax code that the average people can cite. They know it has something, and often everything, to do...

"Like a thief in the night, it cuts like a knife"

-Marty Brown

I was opposed to the Wall Street bailout from day one.

We were asked to trust the Bush administration, with no track record for truthfulness, to send $700 billion to...