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  • Thanks for Researching This, Rather Than Healthy Family Life

    The complete and inane turpitude of every aspect of American life and attitudes and values continues to astonish me, over time. I would guess that no American living today under the age of 20 or 30 knows or can conceive of the Great American Family as I experienced it, along with so many other Americans, in the 1950s and 1960s here in America. I ...
    Posted to The Dismal Science by MichaelBernard2 on September 29, 2008

  • Hello Goodbye, Melvyl and Bob Brass

    You two really ''went to town'' or ''to the mat'' here in this string, didn't you? I came across Bob Brass posting much later, and trailed him back here. Bob is of high intelligence, got a good education, his Mom taught kids in New York City most if not all of her career, and Bob worked as an analyst of sorts for Uncle Sam. Melvyl is also an ...
    Posted to The Dismal Science by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008

  • Subventions for the Hajj?

    This was an interesting article but the last part of the conclusion was ridiculus, especially from an economic point of view. What kind of returns does an ''investment'' by the US taxpayer have that makes more Pakistani go to Mekka in comparision with the support for secular womens groups or for better rural infrastructure? What about the moral ...
    Posted to The Dismal Science by Mel Olontha on April 28, 2008

  • Cosby isn't the only black saying the same

    Chris Rock backs up the fact that more effort has to be put out when you're down and out. If the choice is $100 sneakers and using same money to open a checking account, the choice should be obvious. You can complain all you want when you're down and out. The first step is admitting the problem. But the HARDER STEPS are solving the problem.
    Posted to The Dismal Science by vinces on January 14, 2008