Whatever Age We Are Is The Age

As A Father Of Five, I Sometimes Feel I've Spent A Lifetime Watching Disney Musicals.

Financial Institutions Like To Call What They Do Trading. Let's Be Honest. It's Not Trading; It's Betting.

It's No Surprise That The Bush Administration's Bullying Swagger And Blithe Ignorance Have Caused Much Of The Muslim World To Hold The U.s. In Rock-bottom Regard.

The Danger Of Leaving Overwhelming Wealth And Power In The Grasp Of A Small Minority Is A Lesson That Leaders Such As Ousted Tunisian President Zine El-abidine Ben Ali And Deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Have Learned A Little Too Late, As The Demonstrations Across The Arab World Indicate.

Only Institutions That Go About The Old-fashioned Business Of Taking In Deposits From Customer A And Lending Them Out To Customer B Should Be Called Banks. The Rest Should Call Themselves What They Are. 'parlors' Would Be Appropriate, Or 'dens' - Words More Suitable To Venerable Betting Pursuits.