The Sunshine Empire

NCAA Expands March Madness To Include 4,096 Teams

I don’t know why I have been fascinated by the coup in Madagascar but it is riveting. Yet no one seems to notice and or care at all. Two years ago Marc Ravalomanana was re-elected to a second term democratically. I also am fascinated because I don’t really know how to pronounce Ravalomanana, but it’s [...]

This week has seen the towering rage from members of Congress and the political punditocracy about the bonuses given to AIG executives. Now I find the whole thing distasteful like most people, but this sudden outrage about the bonuses seems to be a bit of sound and fury signifying nothing. This is an old story [...]

“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.” Sir Winston Churchill (Former British Prime Minister)

This Friday marks the sixth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, but I wonder if the NCAA tournament will be more noticed that day. Thousands and thousands have died, and no matter your feelings on the war whether for or against, nobody seems to notice that the war is still going. It is the [...]

This guy kicks ass.

I will not lie, Meghan McCain is smoking hot.  She is not some blond Muppet and she has an opinion.  She is a Republican there is no doubt and she and I do not agree politically.  That being said I do like her so much for her moxy in taking on the Republican establishment in [...]

Sometimes I feel like the sitcom character that is the last one that stays at the bar after the series is canceled. Like Bull staying at Night Court. The wanderlust that my Mother often accuses me of having has me thinking of relocating away from The Sunshine Empire. I don’t know what we would call [...]