America's Great Newspapers Have Staffs

If Newspapers Were A Baseball Team, They Would Be The Mets - Without The Hope For Those Folks At The Very Pinnacle Of The Financial Food Chain - Who Average Nearly $24 Million A Year In Income - 'next Year.'

The Economist Is Undoubtedly The Smartest Weekly Newsmagazine In The English Language. I Always Look Forward To Its Quirky Year-end Double Issue.

There Are More People At Obama's Table Offering Ideas Than There Were Five Years Ago, But When It Came To Facing Up To The Republicans' Threat To Force A Double-dip Recession If They Didn't Get Their Millionaires' Tax Cut, They Still Amounted To Nothing. And Therein Lies Our Fundamental Problem.

Apple Is A Wonderful Company For Its Customers And Investors. So, Too, Pixar. (next, Not So Much...) But Apple Is Also An Engine Of Misery For Its Subcontracted Chinese Workers.

Face It, The System Is Rigged, And It's Rigged Against Us.