Cab Thoughts 1/28/12

Of the data collected on disc in history, 90% has been collected in the last 2 years.

This campaign period has been just brutal. No nation should be subjected to such an intense self-serving display as these debates. It's like the Academy Awards back-to-back-to-back......on and on...A friend, responding to my objections, said, "Well, there has to be some test, some display of evidence." Yes. There must. Let's start with a polygraph.

Poor Paterno. He will be remembered for what he did not do, for what he ignored and who he did not protect. A remarkably productive and elevated life destroyed by one thing. And that is how memory works.

So much analgesics were sold in 2010 that every American could have taken 5mg of hydrocodone every 4 hours, every day of the year. 3% of all physicians prescribe 64% of all opiates.

A Harvard study on the economy recently named the two biggest problems as the IRS tax code and government inaction.

What could possibly occurred to have Johnny Depp and his girlfriend of 13 years separate? There does not seem to be any obvious factor....Oh, wait....except his recent movie ....with Angelina Jolie. But that probably doesn't mean anything.

A note on the vanishing middle class: one dollar saved in 1970 is now worth fifteen cents. For the same period the Americans have been hedging the dollar with their homes. It worked until 2007. Now they have no savings and a house worth much less.


American demographics: 47 million people are on food stamps. The number of people over 65 increased 15% in the last decade.

In the 18 games Steeler nose tackle Chris Hoke started the Steelers were 17-1. He is going to retire this week with what sounds like a significant injury.

A recent Gallop poll asking what the major problem facing the country is got greater than 50% response in the economic area (jobs, growth etc.) 2% said income disparity. That said, why would the administration make such a point of it, almost to the exclusion of the important topics?