Mike McCready

For a long time, it has been getting harder to achieve the American dream. While average income for a full-time working male, adjusted for inflation, has remained pretty constant since 1973, the top 1% of US earners has gained ground decade after decade. The objective economic data supporting those facts is solid and has been [...]

After taking some video (below) I decided to put my iPad to good use and made a little sign using Keynote. The sign was a HUGE hit. My picture must have been taken a thousand times and I’m not exaggerating. Some people who came a bit later mentioned they’d seen me on the news before heading down. Funny.

I’m not saying he was being fed answers from off-camera aids but in this morning’s first segment of Meet The Press, Boehner was wearing an ear piece identical to those typically worn by news anchors who use them to take cues and information from the control room regarding breaking news and corrections to any mistakes they might make.

For any of you who might have missed this, Barack Obama killed at last night’s White House Correspondents Dinner. See the video below for laughs and giggles:

It’s about time we sent this guy to the loony bin!

In case you missed it, this is a song about America’s health care system called We’re Number 37 by Paul Hipp. The best line is: We’re #1 in tanks. We’re #1 in planes. We’re #1 in war with #2 for brains Check it out:

I’m seeing on TV that the authorities are taking this manifesto offline. This is the manifesto written by the pilot of the light plane that crashed into the IRS building in Austin, Texas. I have not read it all yet (and don’t endorse it) but in the interest of free flowing information I’m posting it [...]

There’s no real relationship between these two topics except they’re both on my mind. I was just reading in today’s New York Times about Spain’s growing and worse than expected jobless rate. I spend about a third of my time in Spain and the strange thing is that the bad economy isn’t nearly as noticeable [...]

There’s a documentary that you can probably find on Pay-Per-View Movies or Movies On Demand or whatever your cable company calls them. It’s called “Collapse” and to say it was thought-provoking is an understatement. If you don’t read any further or do anything else, do yourself the favor of watching the trailer video below.

In Spain you NEVER see pictures of the first family’s children. José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister doesn’t allow it. However, this week in New York at the UN Sumit Spain’s first family had their picture taken with Barack and Michelle Obama and The US State Department posted the photo on Flickr. Of course, [...]