Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose  KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—9/19/11—You’re kidding. That’s the last thing we need, most people would argue. After all, the banks have already received a massive subsidy, TARP money, and another…

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose  KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—9/12/11—Hurricane Irene was an oxymoron: The word “irenic” means peaceful, which Irene was anything but. Man, however, is no more peaceful than a hurricane. Far…

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—9/5/11—The nation’s employers are becoming increasingly misandrist. They won’t hire men. The proportion of men aged 25 to 64 without any labor-market earnings at all…

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—8/29/11—Banks go bankrupt in hard times. That’s because, however well-capitalized they appear to be, banks remain dependent on other people’s money. The amount of the…

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—8/22/11—Our problems only seem insoluble. Basically, economic growth is the solvent for outsize ratios of debt to GDP. At the end of World War Two,…

Dolors & Sense  by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—8/15/11—It may not be the time of year, but by that time, the plan may even have been implemented. What the world needs is a…

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—8/8/11—Not the kind that one puts on the mantel. No, the trophy I’m talking about is from the Greek word trophe, meaning nourishment. The Tea…

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—8/1/11—Most readers will recall muckraker Lincoln Steffens’s famous line—“I Make a Crime Wave”—about the role of journalistic hype in the erroneous public perception that city…

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—7/25/11—With friends like the Democrats, the poor need no enemies. The Democratic Administration pledged to help the poor and middle class save their homes through…

Dolors & Sense by Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—7/18/11—How will the world end: fire or ice? If we’re talking about the universe, it’s ice, provided “dark energy” continues to power an accelerating expansion…