“It is easiest to separate people from their money at the moment when they are very excited and not thinking clearly.”

The photo is of a LED replica of an early Edison lightbulb. It was hanging over our table at Osteria Enoteca San Marcos, Near the lovely St Regis Hotel

Bad news generates giving as much as good news does. The redheaded one’s popularity probably won’t change now that a jury has confirmed what most of us knew.

So it goes.