The strongman is whacked by the Windstar van!
Is it a laugh, or is it a cry?
And what does it tell us, that a man who lived to 104 died anyway, or that there’s not much in being all physical that isn’t already brain dead?
Gorilla says: “Atlas shrugged, he kicked the sand, he made a buck, and went like all the rest!”
The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, a disaster for which there are no great solutions, Gorilla knows it well, 3 or more hurricanes last year, an earthquake today, entirely denuded of trees, one road north and one road south, men stand by potholes with shovels asking for 50 or 100 gourdes to fill them in, the usual 10 families and 10 politicians gumming up the works, US policy is only and solely about keeping Haitians from coming over on boats to Miami (Cubans get a far better deal, they may be one of this week’s 14 magic terrorist countries, but so long as they don’t come by plane, they’re in for free and for good), and nobody cares long enough to make something lasting last…
Gorilla thinks: “When the Wolf Blitzers of the world decide to ask something other than what the time zone is in Port-au-Prince, Haiti will still be ignored!”
Google is shocked, shocked to find that the Chinese are hacking into their systems!
Like any other corporation whose only concern is the pursuit of money, Google pretends that human rights and copyrights really matter, when they’d gladly sell every account of every dissident in China for whatever the market will bear…
Can’t have it both ways, have to decide whether you really aren’t evil or are just another feckless promoter of whatever keeps the stock price and the options above water!
So, let’s hear no more about Internet piracy, until you decide that things like free speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of the press are worth giving up a buck for!
Gorilla says: “Brin and bear it!”
Not since Gorilla’s birth has so much been happening in New Jersey!
Another victory for medical marijuana, another defeat for gay marriage!
Apparently the logic works like this: if you’re terminally ill, by all means smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
But if your partner’s gay, don’t expect he or she will get anything more than second hand smoke from the justice system.
Gorilla says: “In ten years, both will be legal for all and you can giggle together at last with your chosen husband or wife!”
Not at Alcoa, where revenues and profits missed estimates by a good deal.
It will be interesting to see whether this is the beginning of a round of disappointments from corporate world.
The economy is growing very anemically, and demand, outside of the export sectors, isn’t very great.
Gorilla thinks: “Goingbackwardville is not yet down for the count!”
In Iran, a nuclear physics professor was blown up.
Who killed him?
The Israelis or Americans, bent on slowing down Iran’s nuclear program?
The Iranians, bent on showing their professors who’s boss?
An interesting sidelight to what’s going on between the US and Iran. Both sides are expanding the rhetoric while getting closer to a bilateral solution.
The bet here is that the professor was killed by the Israelis, as a demonstration project of their capabilities and their anger with a US President who’s seeking a peace they don’t currently want.
Gorilla says: “The spies are flexing their muscles, but the diplomats have the momentum!”
