Pearls Before Swine Flu

Does Beer Affect Whom We Find Attractive? http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893671,00.html?cnn=yes
Do Bears Shit In The Woods? Is The Pope Catholic?

Michael Gavaghen went to the swine flu prep school in NY, and reports on it in this morning's post.http://frequentlyalert.blogspot.com/
Friday Night I'm sitting way the hell over on the other side of the room.

I'm going with my whole family this weekend to Orlando-Kississimee for my granddaughter's birthday. We're staying at the new water park hotel.I can feel swine-cooties jumping on me already. What are we supposed to do?

Ayn Rand has a bestseller. Atlas Shrugged, with its free enterprise will save the world message, has been selling better than ever, says CNN.

"Her philosophy of selfishness and her love of pure capitalism (she used to wear a dollar-sign brooch) has earned her many followers, particularly on the right. Rush Limbaugh is a fan; former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was a Rand acolyte in his younger days and a member of her New York salon.

But Rand critics are equally fervent, questioning her belief in pure free markets.
"What I find so remarkable about it is if capitalism can work on its own without any government regulation, then we wouldn't be here," said economist Heather Boushey of the left-leaning Center for American Progress."

Key phrase here: Rush Limbaugh is a fan. And Alan Greenspan has rethought his position:

Boushey points out that even Greenspan has reversed course, to an extent, in his admiration of laissez-faire economics.
"Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity -- myself, especially -- are in a state of shocked disbelief," Greenspan told a congressional hearing in October.http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/04/27/ayn.rand.atlas.shrugged/index.html

Little GTO: GM cuts Pontiac brand and eliminates 23,000 jobs.http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/27/news/companies/gm_announcement/index.htm