Is it OK to feel good?
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary:Is it OK to feel good? When the stock market goes crazy – and I mean crazy in the up direction — the way it did Thursday – when it racks up points like a pinball machine– Ding ding ding! Is it OK to sing along? Is it OK to feel […]15 years ago
Why don’t they like me?
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Why don’t they like me?? Pollster Peter Hart has been trying to understand why Rick Perry, who was supposed to be a shoo-in for the GOP nomination has ended up as Herman Cain’s lunch. And he asked a focus group of Ohio voters to describe the candidates as they might […]15 years ago
Another economic milestone
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Another economic milestone It looks like THIS will be the month that the total national debt finally equals everything the United States produces in a year. Close to $15 TRILLION or 100 percent of GDP. That’s only on paper, but still a sobering milestone, which reminds us yet again that […]15 years ago
NCAA R-I-P
The BS-ishness of the “amateur” ideal in college sports always seemed pretty obvious to me. Maybe this will make it obvious to everyone else. In the October issue of The Atlantic, Taylor Branch predicts lawsuits will soon drown the NCAA in its own hypocrisy. His conclusion: “Scholarship athletes are already paid,†declared the Knight Commission […]15 years ago
The real threat to Wall Street
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: The real threat to Wall Street Police today chased off another group of Wall Street occupiers — this time in Oakland. Another park made safe from idealism. But it turns out that the real threat to Wall Street isn’t the people seeking to occupy it. It’s the people who already […]15 years ago
Every boss is going to read the new Steve Jobs book
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Every boss is going to read the new Steve Jobs book You know what’s going to happen — every boss is going to read that book. The new Steve Jobs biography shows he was not quite as mellow as his image might suggest. “I feel totally comfortable going, in front […]15 years ago
Why do dictators do it?
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Why do they do it? Warning… graphic description ahead: “It’s lying in a morgue in Misrata in a city in the middle of a country on a bloodied mattress and spectators can’t take their eyes off it,” said one report. Poor Khadafy — he died before the world could even […]15 years ago
Let there be jobs!
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Let there be jobs! Good news for the wealthy classes who might have worried that the recession would throw the country into the arms of French-style socialism… New wage statistics just in for 2010 show that what’s called the mean income, which accounts for the actual number of people making […]15 years ago
He just lost it.
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: He just lost it. Why would Terry Thompson release 17 lions, 18 Bengal tigers, plus wolves, baboons, monkeys, bears — from his private zoo near Zanesville, Ohio, then kill himself? Neighbors speculated that his pending divorce may have pushed him over the edge: “He just must of lost it,” said […]15 years ago
Time to come and get the jobs!
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Time to come and get the jobs! “Kick the immigrants out! Free up those jobs for American workers!” We’ve heard that again and again. Politicians have called for walls, troops, surveillance — all to keep out the people who are taking American jobs. It’s the issue that started the fight […]15 years ago
More blatant politicking
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: More blatant politicking The President is off on a bus tour to push his jobs program, and Republicans including majority leader Eric Cantor see it for what it is: BLATANT POLITICKING. “We want the president to work with us. We want him to stop the campaigning.” Stop the campaigning! But […]15 years ago
Did Steve Jobs have to die when he did?
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Did Steve Jobs have to die when he did? A debate has broken out on a remarkably sober web site called Quora on whether Steve Jobs really had to die when he did. Ramzi Amri, who is described as a Harvard Medical School researcher and faculty member, posted that based […]15 years ago
God bless Warren Buffet
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: God bless Warren Buffet. At the Occupy Seattle protest last night, I saw this on this live stream – a young girl being interviewed: Woman: Cleo would you like to say hello to the world? Cleo: Hello world. Woman: And why are you here? Cleo: To fight the corporate a–holes. […]15 years ago
God knows why my Blackberry froze [Dave Ross original song]
Blackberries going dark along with everything else? This is going too far. Dave Ross was so upset he wrote a song about it. Take a listen: Listen to Dave Ross original song: God knows why my Blackberry froze Subscribe to The Dave Ross Commentary podcast15 years ago
Explain this…
UW students marched in support of Occupy Seattle, but Gallup shows they enjoy a lower unemployment rate than any other group: …their angst is easy for critics to dismiss, especially since out of work grads can just go back to their old bedrooms.15 years ago
The Cost of Throwing Away The Key
You’ve heard that the state may have to cut the supervision of 12,000 felons to save money… Read this from listener Dick Hooper: Dave… …you may remember I was a probation and parole officer…..back in “the good old days”, probation was the norm….only really dangerous people were sent to prison and almost everyone was put […]15 years ago
The 99% meet the 53%
Listen to The 99% meet the 53% Occupy Wall Street supporters have been posting their handwritten personal stories on a site called We Are The 99%. Here’s an example: “4 kids. Husband works full time for minimum wage, we qualify for food stamps, We do not have credit cards and drive a car that is […]15 years ago
Are Occupy Wall Street protesters the REAL tea party?
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Are Occupy Wall street protesters the REAL tea party? Occupy Wall Street protesters were all over the news this weekend, and Republican candidates continued to dis them: “I regard the the Wall Street protest as a natural outcome of a bad education system teaching them really bad ideas,” said Newt […]15 years ago
The 99 percent tell their stories
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: The 99 percent tell their stories According to presidential candidate Herman Cain, the 99 percenters — who claim that our economy is stacked in favor of the wealthiest one percent are lazy people: “If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself,” said Cain. Blame yourself! Maybe […]15 years ago
Happy non-recession day!
Listen to Happy non-recession day! Latest jobs report shows the economy is not recession yet. Hallelujah. But unemployment is still at 9.1, 14 million people are out of work, a third of them for more than a year, and some of them have decided, what the heck, I’ll go to New York and camp out. […]15 years ago
It takes an emperor
Listen to Dave’s commentary: It takes an emperor Today we pay homage to Steve Jobs, and his philosophy: Find what you love to do. Don’t settle. Remember that we’re all going to die. Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter; what matters is doing something wonderful. But Steve Jobs didn’t become a success […]15 years ago
Listener 1, Dave 0
From the Magic Message file: Name: Kris City: Tacoma Dave, You did it again, when you mentioned the income tax on the rich you kept wanting to portray the poor as stupid for not voting for it. Yet you fail to mention that after 2 years the state legislature can change any initiative and we […]15 years ago
Free at last
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Free at last A prisoner was released yesterday, after being wrongly convicted of a crime committed by someone else — a crime motivated by sex and committed in a bedroom: “I was looking down from the airplane and it seemed like everything wasn’t real,” that’s Amanda Knox. But THIS is […]15 years ago
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