Archive for March 26th, 2013

Timing is everything: An email from Gtown’s AD

March 26, 2013

On Monday, there was an email blast from Lee Reed, Georgetown’s Athletic Director.

I thought it might be a mea culpa for the basketball team’s one-and-done in the NCAA tourney.

Nope.

Maybe another pep talk re: how awesome the CYO League (oops, I meant Big East) is going to be.

Wrongamundo.

Nope.

Lee had his fund-raising hat on and was trying to stir up buying  interest for Gtown sports memorabilia.

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Sports memorabilia … you know like #33 or #55 jerseys … Final Four t-shirts from 2007.

Lee, you mighta sat on this one for a couple of days.

You know, let the dust settle.

Or, haven’t you heard the news?

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What’s so shocking about Cyprus’ tax on bank accounts?

March 26, 2013

OK, Cyprus is going to slap a tax on bank accounts over $100,000.

The world is aghast.  The end of financial systems as we know them is in the balance.

Say, what?

It’s not the first time that a government – think, U.S. government — has seized (oops, I meant “taxed”) private assets

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Here are a couple of examples from close to home …

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