If you look at headlines populating all the major news organizations past few days there were three major events that stole all real estate. These headlines but headline one indisputable fact - the world has gone nuts. Loco. Kaput. Bonkers. I suspect its not a recent occurrence yet amplifies the message yet again to those listening. Newsworthy items included -
1. Greece is going to freak out - they cannot handle the stress - they have no money.
2. Spain is next - then France - they also have no money - they are all waiting to fall. Elections not withstanding (which means to fall). Damn no one saw this fall coming after the Berlin wall.
3. Facebook is likely to raise 100B dollares from the same idiots who see these countries failing due to lack of money.
Ever wonder where the money went? To gab on facebook? To put ads on facebook? I mean if a company designed to woo the opposite sex for date night is able to raise $100B market cap then can the combined economies of Greece, Spain and France not do so?
Are the Mighty Greeks, the Romantic Spaniards and the Artistic French no good after all?
Would the EU collapse ruin the after party for FB? Could we be looking at a European Fall after the Arab Spring? Now that would be ironic?
On an informal mission to read one book a week as long as the eyes allow for such ambition. Fiction or non is not important as long as it entertains and /or educates. To that end the past few weeks have brought a bounty in the form of some wonderful and then not so engaging literature. Among the notables are - Non fiction category: 1. Good arguments by Bo Seo (how to handle a dispute or debate the most efficient way possible) 2. Genesis by Eric Schmidt (and former US Secy of State Henry Kissinger, who recently passed) - how AI might affect our lives as we know it 3. One in a billion - Zarna Garg (an autobiographical look at an Indian born American woman with a bindi narrated in a standup format - yes it is at times cliched but still funny) Fiction: 1. Personal by Lee Child (a vigilante story with Jack Reacher the giant, nomad protagonist of Child's novels goes hunting for a sniper) 2. Ramayana unraveled by Ami Ganatra (she might disagree about it being a work of fiction but oh wel...
Karl Marx may be laughing out loud. Lol.
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