I'd like to compile a list of ways in which these wacky and illogical times we're in are more like the world Alice found after following the White Rabbit into Wonderland than any other era I can recall in all my 67 years.

To start:

In honor of Friday the 13th, today's date, I realized that Nadoff and the American banking system has actually figured a way to perform a "Reverse Alchemy of sorts. Gold is placed into the banks, and it turns to lead.

Art Thieme