Last week, I blogged that Apple's hubris, would be their undoing, after they were defensive and dismissive of the iPhone V4 problem.

Their stock took a beating today. The Android X and Motorola have momentum. Motorola's co-CEO took a punch, that Apple deserved by letting their guard down, saying that the weakness of the iPhone's signal was inherent in the design. When something as evil as Google, with a product called an Android, and a company with more ups and downs than a roller coaster with a "co-CEO", can pass the "snicker test" and bite you - you know, you screwed up.

Which brings me to my wife's Europe vacation with her friends. I have included three pictures from her trip. If Rome, Corsica and Sicily are outdated, they at least have tourism. When the US, and its hubris have left it in the dark ages, who is even going to want to visit the Field of Dreams in Iowa? Plow down the baseball field and start planting seeds to feed the world. The US value will be like Saudi Arabia. "Oh, that is an interesting piece of sand, but move over so I can tap your oil".

The first picture is my wife in Rome tossing a coin into the Trevi Fountain. Legend has it, that if you toss one coin into the fountain you will return. If you toss two coins into the fountain you will find a new romance partner and three coins you will get married or divorced. I see my wife only throwing one coin. I hope that is not wishful thinking.

The second picture is from Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon. I can assure you that the muscled guy under the statue is not me.

Finally the third picture is from Sicily. My wife is standing in front of a volcano crater. American's don't usually spend their time looking at a globe (maybe a map of a mall), but if they did, they would realize how large Sicily is. Besides it's quint villages it is shaped by pillage and vulcanism 

- John Jazwiec