Passionately intense musings
AGAIN!!!! In one of the most frustrating turn of events, the Delta takeover of Northwest continues to display why this company will slowly die in the coming years. At a time whewn customers should be woo’d and appeased, Delta is doing everything they can to tick off the man getting onboard.I just got done getting my hand luggage weighed for […]
» Read moreGreece may start it. Abd the it is the collapse of the euro. The way things are headed around the mediterranean, we may be seeing the return of the franc, deutschmark and lira. The USFL once got off to a good start. A lot of rich guys dumped a lot of money into the league. The league actually gained a […]
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– How cool is this picture of the Colosseum? Rome’s largest snowfall in 25 years. Global wahhhaaat? – Is Greece going to be a high-profile country version of Lehman Brothers? I’m not ruling it out. – Could there have been a worse start for the Winter Olympics than constant stories about lack of snow and a luge death? I was […]
» Read more$14 million is not chump change, and it just might be enough to get Johnny Damon to wear the Old English “D”. But do we want him in The D? The Tigers traded Curtis Granderson because they could remove some cash from the payroll. They did the same with Edwin Jackson, instead choosing to take on Max Scherzer and his […]
» Read moreVilla 1-Man U 1. Not an exciting way to walk away from the stadium. Villa took a 1-0 lead at the 19 minute mark off a great Carlos Cuellar header. Less than 4 minutes later, Ryan Giggs blasted a ball towards net at about the six yard line and it deflected off of James Collins for an own goal and […]
» Read moreThat’s the plan I’m hearing resides in the latest budget to come out of Washington. Who in their right mind wants to wake up Monday and say “I’m going to work for free today.” That same person can come back home, wake up Tuesday and say “I’m going to work for free today.” And even Wednesday, “After lunch, I’ll finally […]
» Read moreI’m not sure which way is supposed to be worse, east to west or west to east. I tried to hang in and avoid the jet lag coming from Hong Kong to England. I think I did well staying up on Friday and made it until about 11 pm on Saturday. But an English Super Bowl (11:30 pm kick-off) had […]
» Read moreMy friend put me on hold one day this week. Instead of getting elevator music, I got cell phone on the desk sounds, including him answering the phone by calling his boss Dr. Smith. He came back to the phone needing to answer why the heck he was calling his direct boss Dr. Why not use her first name? Where […]
» Read more– How much pressure did that 13 year old just put himself under by signing with USC? His opponents are going to have a field day talking trash. – Who else but Donald Sterling would think it is a good idea to consider Isiah Thomas for a GM/coach role? – Who wins the Super Bowl, Colts or Saints? I’m rooting […]
» Read moreI muat have been lucky. Very lucky in fact. And I had no idea. All of my transatlantic long-haul flights the last few years have been with Northwest/KLM. Most of the time these flights were on A330s, easily my favorite planes solely for legroom and the individual movie screens. Lufthansa delivered a blow from the start by weighing my carry-on […]
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