There's nothing better than an old fashioned ghost story just before Halloween. This one is written by the Curmudgeon Gal and Read by Marsh Cassady. Get in the spooky mood with "The Ghost Race Rock." As an aside, Race Rock Lighthouse is a real place in Long Island Sound and is just off the coast of Connecticut near New London. It is one of the spookiest lighthouses I've seen.

Nothing annoys me more than being discriminated against. Here's a new one that has me gnashing my teeth, and so should you, that is, if you like your occasional naughty sweet treat. Have you found that the old slim you has burgeoned a bit in certain places?

The Patriot Act was set into place during the Bush Administration; do we really want it to continue under the new Administration? Has it made us safe enough to pay for with the erosion of our Civil Rights? It's something to seriously think about.

Wing Nuts and crazies have come out of hiding once again in the arguments against Universal Health Care.  What is wrong with America to constantly create enough fear that people are willing to vote and act against their own self-interest?

The Fourth of July, the day America celebrates it's independence just passed. It's a good time for a reality check and taking a good hard look at the country. Sweep away all those misconceptions you have about America's place in the world and take off the blinkers. It might come as a surprise that we aren't really as wonderful as you might have thought.

Drug Wars have made an impact on Mexico. Now Mexico is reeling under other multiple impacts, a lousy US economy, necessity for travelers to have a passport of other Federal documentation to get back home, the swine flu scare, it's own economic problems and slow death by media. How can a country recover from such negativity? We need help.

It's hard to admit you might need a little help. A lie of "I'm OK" comes much easier than admitting you might not be so great and a little help could be needed. That lie could prove deadly on certain occasions.

Now is the time to get even with the developers and auto dealers who kept raising prices with no justification other than greed.  It's about time the tables are turned and I dearly love being out there turning them.

Beheading is the new crime of choice. We have become so inured to violence it takes something horrific to get our attention. The violence of our North American crimes start to make the Somalia pirates and their code begin to look like the good guys.

Everyone is busy pointing fingers at who they think is responsible for the global economic morass.  There are certainly enough to point at, but I have my own ideas, I think it's all the Boomers' fault.

guys getting big bonuses for tanking AIG, angry about where taxpayer money is going? Yeah, me too, but I have a way to punish the guys who were in charge that's both legal and effective.

A love note to Jon Stewart. It's interesting that it takes a comedian to have the guts to ask the tough questions to the financial media..., like, where were you and why didn't you see danger coming? I have a few suggestion of some more guys who need to have their feet put to the fire...so be prepared mortgage brokers, banks, real estate agents, mall developers. I'm sure I'll figure out a few more for the future.