And all this time I was obsessed with buying the best running shoes.  When I should have had the insight to get a pair of the best throwing shoes.  So what shoe vendor will be the first to pimp their "throwing shoes"?!

There are now endless scores of economic and financial experts predicting an oncoming world economic collapse.  So many that I wouldn't bet my foreclosed farm against them.  Almost none of them are willing to venture how bad it will be or how long it will endure.  But almost all are offering opinions on what the government should or should not do to prop up the American economy.  I see things a little differently.  I don't think the government should do any thing, not a damn thing, for big business, for small business, for the rich, for the poor, for the mortgaged, for the unmortgaged,  for the emerging green, or for the dirty-oily entrenched.  Not a damn thing for anyone's sake per se .  What the government must do is twofold:  1) stave off the international overflow of chaos and destruction that will erupt from nations completely overwhelmed and blown away by the Shakti-force of financial collapse, and 2) position the American economy to be at the top of the international financial heap when the dust of this economic implosion settles.  You see, true prosperity will only return and be shared by all after the financial seismic shocks and aftershocks yet to come fade into the past.  Those nations positioned at or near the top will, once again, lead the way back to prosperity and share more gloriously of it.  

What will it take to be at the top when the time for the reemergence of world-sharable wealth comes about?

Superior vision, near-endless perseverance, and ruthless compassion. 

Meanwhile, cybercriminals are celebrating the hard times.  Know why?  Because online shoppers are spending more and more time online going to more and more sites to find the best deal.  And the more an online shopper shops, the more drive-by malware downloads they are exposed to, the more the redirect to malicious sites they will experience, the more their browser's defenses will be probed and weaknesses attacked.   It's a good time to be a cybercriminal.  And it appears, from my vantage, that some of the best cyberminds are.

I just had a bowl of chicken soup and I am now drinking a beer.  Thank God, for now, I didn't have to choose between the two.