There I was at the bank to see how much I owed my reserve when I spotted a Wall Street Journal on the bank's coffee table.

It's amazing how this liberal loves that rag; maybe because they sneak in stuff they don't want you to know, such as last week's article I read while “supervising” my 1st Bank account. That article said the Fed had “exchanged” (read “lent”) our money to the European banks, which means they did so without having to notify Congress.

Amusing to me is that my son-in-law, who's a conservative and who religiously reads the WSJ, was amazed the Fed would do that.

So to avoid going home to attack my to-do list,” I picked up the latest copy and read about Facebook and why it is popular. Hey, it sells nothing yet makes more profit than G.E. or Uncle Sam.

The author said it all about our interest in the other guy and what he or she is doing. We used to call this “keeping up with the Jones,” but the author claims it goes way back in our heritage to the apes. Apparently primates every 20 to 30 seconds look to the alpha male and female to see what they're doing.

I thought that hilarious until I realized that I did so only so I could do the opposite — i.e. I don't own a pair of blue jeans and wear kilts on every Scot or Irish festival (the Scots were in Ireland at the time of the Roman invasion and only came to Scotland in the 800s) or when all my underwear is in the laundry hamper.

What does this make me? Certainly not a descendant of apes but of lizards? I'm a bloody member of that tribe that really runs things?