t no home should be without.I mean who doesn't want a bronze block that resembles the stern section of the Titanic as it
plunges to the bottom in the depths of the icy North Atlantic. It is intended to be a desk piece. I can think of nothing more fitting for a business person to have. A constant reminder that misfortune is just around every corner and with it lives of thousands will be forever changed. I managed to keep the credit card firmly in place inside the wallet this morning even though I was sorely tempted.
The desk item also is a piggy bank. The reason this item was so attractive to me had to do with the political state of affairs. For just yesterday Ted Cruz named Carly Fiorina as his running mate. A calculating move to say the least, but one that was so absurdly unnecessary at the stage of his campaign that I was unable to get that maxim out of my head. Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
This campaign season is one of untold humorous twist and turns and even though it is as annoying as a poke in the eye, I can still see the humor in some of this. Ted Cruz naming a VP/Running Mate was funny. And the pairing was most serendipitous, for who would imagine that the two most humorless , distasteful candidates would ever get paired into a single ticket.
The other thing that amused me was the idea that my newspaper has resorted to selling merchandise to augment its bottom line. The news business is really sinking-- that is where you are supposed to groan.
