One of my standing Google Alerts brought this to my attention:

Pine Nuts: So how are those Super PACs working for you? | TahoeBonanza.com.

Someday the Supreme Court will rule that it is immoral, unethical and seemly to issue a gambling license whereby the licensed can stringently stack the deck against an injudicious general public. Talk about financial engineering! What we need is more mechanical engineers and fewer financial engineers. But I live in Nevada and so shall save that crusade for another day. The fact that I love to bet on football has nothing to do with my not taking a stronger stand.

Thanks to Citizens United the financial services industry in this country now owns our political process and our Congress. Richard Durbin, Senator from Illinois and Fellow of the Royal Society, put it in plain language when describing the financial firms that brought down our economy, “These firms are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they, frankly, own the place.”

We’ve turned the car keys over to a juvenile delinquent who is intoxicated on greed, and hell bent to get power and money or crash the car trying.

I leave the last word to Henry George 1839-1897: “So long as the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

“George, allow me to buy you one.”

— Learn more about McAvoy Layne as the Ghost of Twain at ghostoftwain.org.