SNIPPETS

NOVEMBER 15,  2009

MILAN (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp has seen no sign of a recovery in the consumer electronics market, Chief Executive Howard Stringer said in an interview published on Sunday.  It was difficult to say if world economies have returned to solid growth, he told Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy's leading business daily.

Someone should slip this man a note with one word on it:  Apple.  Apple is doing just fine with good old-fashioned free enterprise - developing innovative products, selling them through innovative stores, and satisfying its customers.  Sony used to do the same thing.  A long time ago.

NOVEMBER 14,  2009

SANTA FE, N.M., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A New Mexico senior who lost her savings in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme says she has taken to drawing portraits of the convict as therapy.

Not a bad idea.  I expect readers to submit their sketches of Barack Obama.