The Osgood File

Home | About Charles | Show Archive | Podcasting | Station Finder

Oct 10, 2008 The stampede in the hour before yesterday's closing on the New York Stock Exchange brought the Dow down another 679 points at the bell. Which means that over the last year since the record high, investors have lost 8.4 trillion dollars of wealth in this country alone.

TRANSCRIPT

Oct 10, 2008 And in an election, when political candidates make promises, you gotta believe, or at least suspend disbelief to support them.

TRANSCRIPT

Oct 10, 2008 When a person is sick and getting sicker, like the world economy right now, all the specialists gather round and do their diagnosis. Make their prognosis and prescribe the treatments they know about based on their prior experience.

TRANSCRIPT

Oct 10, 2008 It can be argued that the digital information age, as wonderful as some of the changes it has brought have been, also swamps us with too much instantaneous information and requires us to respond too quickly without having a chance to think.

TRANSCRIPT

Oct 8, 2008 Have you heard about Google's Goggles? They're something Google is testing for it's G-mail e-mail subscribers to save them from themselves, from putting something rash into an e-mail that they're going to wish they hadn't.

TRANSCRIPT

Pretty Good

There once was a pretty good student.
Who sat in a pretty good class
And was taught by a pretty good teacher.
Who always let pretty good pass.

He wasn't terrific at reading;
He wasn't a whiz-bang at math;
But for him education was leading
Straight down a pretty good path.

He didn't find school too exciting,
But he wanted to do pretty well.
And he did have some trouble with writing,
And nobody had taught him to spell.

When doing arithmetic problems,
Pretty good was regarded as fine;
Five and five needn't always add up to be ten.
A pretty good answer was nine.

The pretty good student was happy
With the standards that were in effect.
And nobody thought it was sappy
If his answers were not quite correct.

The pretty good class that he sat in
Was part of a pretty good school.
And the student was not an exception;
On the contrary, he was the rule.

The pretty good school that he went to
Was right there in a pretty good town.
And nobody there ever noticed
He could not tell a verb from a noun.

The pretty good student, in fact, was
A part of a pretty good mob,
And the first time he knew what he lacked was
When he looked for a pretty good job.

It was then, when he sought a position,
He discovered that life can be tough,
And he soon had a sneaky suspicion
Pretty good might not be good enough.

The pretty good town in our story
Was part of a pretty good state
Which had pretty good aspirations
and prayed for a pretty good fate.

There was once a pretty good nation.
Pretty proud of the greatness it had.
But which learned much too late.
If you want to be great,
Pretty good is, in fact, pretty bad.

Funny Letters from F

See You on the Radio

MORE TITLES

This site is hosted and Managed by Nox Solutions LLC.