I don’t know. There are days when I read the newspaper in the morning and want to reach for some chocolate, a big fat gooey doughnut, a latte loaded with whipped cream or some potatoes fried in loads of butter. I want to clog up my arteries the way the news stories clog up my head. Counter-productive, I know. But what the hell. The stories just seem to get worse by the day.
For example, the G20 is going to meet here in Pittsburgh in September. Meanwhile our state budget in …

Yesterday the White House announced that the next meeting of the Group of Twenty (or G-20) will be held in September in the City of Pittsburgh. The G20 summit will involve the leaders of the world’s most important industrialized nations, and will be hosted by President Barack Obama. Originally the meeting was intended to be a gathering of the chief finance ministers and central bank governors to discuss important issues affecting the global economy; however, since its inception in 1999, the G-20 summit has grown to include heads …