I don’t mean to get heavy on you guys…ok, that’s a lie. I read a couple articles today that shook me a bit. Just in case we all needed to be reminded how lucky we are, here are a couple sobering tales.
Alexandra Penney is a successful author and former editor of Self magazine, and more relevantly, a victim of rogue money manager Bernard Madoff. Penney handed over her life savings to Madoff in the late-80’s and has been shoveling funds into her account every since. Now that money is gone. …

This cannot be happening. I thought it was physically and mentally impossible, but I actually agree with something Bill Kristol wrote. For any political novices, Kristol is the founding editor of conservative political mag The Weekly Standard and a card-carrying member of the Neo-Con Numskull Society. He has been one of the biggest supporters-turned-apologists for President Bush and one of the most maniacal and partisan conservative “intellectuals” (I use the term loosely) on the American political landscape over the past decade. Typically I have about as much regard for Kristol …