By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (First of Three Parts) (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, DATE, 2013) — How much is $1 trillion? One trillion dollars is: — A one followed by 12 zeroes. — One million millions. If the Fed printed million dollar bills, $1 trillion would not fit in a large bathtub. — [...]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, DEC. 3, 2013) — How low has political pettiness stooped in The Corner Office? If our sources within the building can be believed, the ground around city hall has sunk below that of Death Valley, and worms in the area of Mayor Dan [...]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, DEC. 2, 2013) — Getting caught on a plane with the talkative insurance salesman who wants to tell you all about the nuances of “whole life” — We’ve all been in these captive situations. Today, THE PLANET presents this guest column from Francois [...]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27, 2013) — Today is the anniversary of a happy event that led to a sad one on the most personal and grievous of levels. Nonetheless, on the day before Thanksgiving, THE PLANET mentally, emotionally, and spiritually recalibrates, if for nothing than on [...]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, NOV. 26, 2013) — As school committee member Terry Kinnas shared with readers of this website yesterday, the Bianchi Administration‘s blunder — shared equally with the Pittsfield School Department over the now-doomed bonding deal on replacement of the city’s school buses — is a [...]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, NOV. 25, 2013) — It’s not even Turkey Day, and already the streets and roadways of Berkshire County wear the white, not of snow, but of salt. It used to be we as a community didn’t get so panicked about pre-winter, but that’s not [...]
