Author: Judge Michael Boyajian

The tragic events in Japan may in the long run help improve the world economy. Right now you have centers of industrial output around the world. All our eggs are in a few baskets.

The centers in Japan have come to a grinding halt because of the disasters there driving down economic recovery. In order to avoid this in the future businesses should turn to a risk allocation model.

This model can easily be seen in mutual funds where instead of putting all your money in one stock you spread it around to a diverse portfolio of stocks.

It was with deep regret that I read of Frank Rich’s departure from the Op Ed page of the New York Times. Its hard to imagine who will fill the center of that Sunday page. Perhaps it will be more than one columnist.

I think I speak for many bloggers when I say I am always waiting for the phone to ring with the New York Times to be on the line asking me to join the paper. Its not an ego thing and its not that I think I am a great writer.

Governor Andrew Cuomo should grab federal super train money that short sighted Republican governors have rejected so as to build a bullet train line from New York to Albany to Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo.

The rejected funding could overcome hurdles that the New York to Albany run is too curvy for a super train. Perhaps running it along the Thruway would help.

Lady Gaga has been outing opponents of gay rights in and out of New York State for a while now most recently putting marriage equality pressure on a Buffalo area senator during a concert in that city with the New York Times speculating more of the same at a future Long Island concert.

Some elected officials are recklessly tossing out the idea of a “no fly zone” over Libya without thought to the consequences of U.S. involvement. The most notable proponent of this is a man who thinks we should still be fighting the Vietnam War.

Our involvement in Libya could change the dynamic of the battle tipping people in that country towards Qaddafi out of distrust for the West leading to a defeat of the rebel forces.

The developments in this winter of discontent in the Arab world leaves Western observers wondering if this is either an Arab renaissance or reformation.

Well it cannot be called a reformation because the protesters are targeting autocrats seeming to hopscotch over religious leaders reaching instead for their own independent place in the sun.

As for a renaissance it is too early to tell but one thing is for certain if this rising sticks to its current trajectory you will have the birth of democracies that will lead to an Arab renaissance for certain.

The opening of March On is scheduled for January 30^th at the New York City LGBT Center and on January 28^th at the Proctor in Schenectady where it kicks off the capital region’s Q Fest and it may prove to be a game changer for the movement in favor of marriage equality in the United States as the film puts a human face on the inequalities of the institution of marriage and the trials and tribulations of same sex couples as they try to adopt to a country that has chosen, for the most par