April 30, 2012
It Was a Thousand Against Two
“The battle scene was tense. The fighting was fierce. And of course we were all scared. It was a thousand against two. And somehow, we were able to pull it off. Somehow we prevailed. Somehow we won. We...
April 29, 2012
WHCD
We were late to the one party that we were invited to over the weekend, thanks to a Presidential motorcade that kept us waiting for 20 minutes and screwed up traffic for another 25 minutes. The White House...
April 27, 2012
Numbers Beating Ideas These Days
“Feel like a stranger/A stranger in this land/I feel like a number/I’m not a number/I’m not a number/Dammit I’m a man/I said I’m a man.” Bob Seger felt like a number when he wrote that song in...
April 26, 2012
Changing CSRS Into FERS
In the mid-1980’s, Social Security was going broke, as was the Federal government. And the retirement program for all Federal employees was in the cross-hairs of voters who thought it cost too much and was too generous to retirees....
April 25, 2012
Wither the Postal Service
Before Ben Franklin revolutionized the delivery of mail in all Thirteen Colonies in North America, in the Southern colonies, postal duties often fell to slaves, who were responsible for carrying the mail from plantation to plantation. Failure to expedite...
April 25, 2012
Slow Jam
I was in bed last night well before the Jimmy Fallon Show came on last night, so I had to wait until this morning before watching the President slow jam the news. I laughed out loud. You...