Care to Guess How Many Homes Sold Over $750,000 in June and July?

``The media, and it would seem the government, are somehow surprised that the real estate market is not at all well. They apparently had thought that things were on the upswing, although why they thought that way, I cannot even imagine. Perhaps they posses marijuana of such exceptional quality that it alters their reality to such a degree that they actually believe they are living in a place where business is great, life is wonderful and people are terrific. The Big Rock Candy Mountain, perhaps?''