If there was ever one day of the year I used to look forward to, it had to be "Black Friday" in the US. I'm talking about the day after Thanksgiving Day, not the other days called "Black Friday" around the world. Of course, since I'm no longer in the US, I can't look forward to it, now can I?
For the past week, I've been suffering from a case of the doldrums. Yesterday was the first time I'd written anything in a week, anywhere (but not here). This morning, my spirit was lifted when my doorbell rang and a representative of Forex Cargo told me he had two packages to deliver. Filipinos call them balikbayan boxes and I don't think there's an American expression that quite conveys the same meaning. In this particular instance, I had a brother-in-law push them into a corner of the downstairs living room because I know there's nothing in either one intended for anyone but my own family.
I would love to say that personal income taxes in the US are a joke, but it's no laughing matter. The US and individual state governments are serious enough about tax collection to put people in prison when they fail to file or pay their personal income taxes.
In 1864, Herbert Spencer wrote "This survival of the fittest, implies multiplication of the fittest." He had no idea that the term "survival of the fittest" would come to mean the most highly trained and physically energetic of our day and time. During the current economic recession, businesses are facing the "survival of the fit" only because many are far from being the fittest companies in business. In the face of adversity, the fittest aren't trying to survive; they're seeing opportunities that never before existed.
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