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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 |12.00 am

PIIGS In A Poke

BY Bernie McSherry

 

 

At the beginning of "National Lampoon's European Vacation" the Griswold family appeared on a game show called "Pig in a Poke" standing cheek by jowl in matching pink pig costumes as Chevy Chase, portraying the clueless family head Clark Griswold, brashly decided to risk the family's winnings by playing for the grand prize. Unexpectedly pitted against the show's all-time winningest family, things looked bleak for the Griswolds when they were asked to name the lieutenant who led the famous expedition to the Pacific Northwest in 1804. Completely stumped when asked for the final answer, Ellen

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Friday, May 07, 2010 |12.00 am

A Modest Proposal To Solve The Greek Debt Crisis

BY Bernie McSherry

 The Greek debt crisis appears to be coming to a head and I am happy to report that I may have hit upon a solution to the problem by recalling the events that took place in Greece on this date 178 years ago. Let's install Angela Merkel as Queen of Greece. Now, don't quit on me dear reader, for as crazy as it sounds, the idea is not without precedent. Read on.

 

The dream of a United Europe is not a new one and in the centuries before the European Union was established through diplomatic means, most of those dreams involved conquest and slaughter.  Caesar, Charlemagne and Napoleon are

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Friday, May 07, 2010 |12.00 am

A Modest Proposal To Solve The Greek Debt Crisis

BY Bernie McSherry

 The Greek debt crisis appears to be coming to a head and I am happy to report that I may have hit upon a solution to the problem by recalling the events that took place in Greece on this date 178 years ago. Let's install Angela Merkel as Queen of Greece. Now, don't quit on me dear reader, for as crazy as it sounds, the idea is not without precedent. Read on.

 

The dream of a United Europe is not a new one and in the centuries before the European Union was established through diplomatic means, most of those dreams involved conquest and slaughter.  Caesar, Charlemagne and Napoleon are

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