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Tomorrow is April Fool's Day, and apparently there is a lunatic out there somewhere who wants to infect our computers with a virus capable of capturing sensitive information and disrupting routine operations. Not wanting to tempt fate, I have decided to attempt to cook breakfast now and keep my computer off tomorrow. Perhaps you should do the same.




This evening I am preparing a goat cheese souffle for "breakfast". I need eggs, goat cheese and butter and the patience to wait forty minutes while it bakes in the oven. I sit down with a cup of coffee to read the paper and discover that the Obama administration is now in the business of designing, manufacturing and selling cars. Is this for real or am I having a out of body experience?



The more I read, the more I realize that in the blink of an eye, President Obama has managed to fire Rick Wagoner, the chief executive of General Motors. Can he do that? I mean, I know he's the president, but can he do that? I'm also wondering why he would choose this particular moment in time to ask Mr. Wagoner to step down, considering that he was already in the midst of trying to restructure the company. Shifting the captain in mid stream seems more than a little bit foolish.



Clearly the administration has no problem blurring the lines between big government and the private sector, and I am very concerned about this trend and where it is heading. It sounds like the road to socialism, but I hope I am wrong.



What does anyone in Washington know about running a corporation? The answer is nothing, absolutely nothing, and that can't be a good thing. It would have been better to let General Motors go through a restructuring through a controlled bankruptcy under the guidance and jurisdiction of laws and systems that are already in place. Instead, we have politicians calling the shots because it would seem that they believe they can do anything they please.



My goat cheese souffle has collapsed in the oven and so have my spirits. Happy April Fool's Day everyone.