Fresh hot bread

Nothing like little rolls right out of the oven, even if they were a bit misshapen. With enough dough to make a little chubby baguette for later. Combined with a good night's sleep - except for the three ayem poking by one of the cats - a double cappucino with milk and foam, and plenty of butter and maple butter, one can face about anything.
One headline and blurb from this week's Washington Post Weekly: "Pay Them What They're Worth" - "Some corporate executives have run companies into the ground and still pull down hefty salaries, then walk away with nice severance packages. But some activist shareholders are fed up and not going to allow that any more...They're trying to link executive pay with performance, holding the top people responsible for their actions. The movement is gaining steam at businesses nationwide."
Well, doesn't that sound familiar: It's the way Cheney/Bush& Co. are working over our country: running it into the ground as they scavenge the dying body politic. Of course, we citizens as shareholders aren't making the demands for performance that corporate shareholders evidently do, and the rising up to make such demands doesn't happen as quickly with the federal government as it does in private businesses. Also the USA shareholders aren't all as savvy or sharp as people making moeny on investments in corporations. But it seems to me it's a similar model, and as I've observed previously, the middle class should be more than fed up with the destruction of the USA, they should be hollering for "severance packages" that hurt.