This is a protest essay about the shell games politicians play with public health, safety and welfare.  The premise is that if a proper job of flood protection for New Orleans and, by extension, the Gulf Coast were done by government officials there would be no need for an evacuation of any kind. ... read more

The current world problem with global warming brings to mind other man made environmental problems. A number of years ago Rachel Carson, in her book Silent Spring, exposed the destructive problems chemical pesticides, such as DDT that were meant to reduce harmful insect populations, were causing for... read more

The price of crude oil has gone past one hundred ten dollars a barrel on the commodities exchange. A few stories are predicting it will shoot for one hundred twenty-five dollars a barrel. Why so expensive? You’d think that Washington would have come up with a permanent, cost effective solution at... read more

The Ultimate Solution For The Dreaded Black Screen of Death or otherwise known as the “why doesn’t explorer.exe load up when i boot vista?” solution. Let me preface the following with this statement: It took me FOREVER and a day to find out how to fix my problem. One day, i decided... read more

We live in troubled times. I want to pose the question what are elected federal officials doing to reduce or solve the problems? Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain are arguing over the Iraq war and taxes. I submit there are other important problems facing this country. As in the past, there... read more

My doctor does not perform miracles.  He is not a faith healer.  He does not heal the halting or halt healing, if he can.  But he does have a lot of medical experience, many connections and a good practice.  Still, as for bringing back the dead, no, he cannot do that and I do not think he contemplates... read more

The Congress currently favors alcohol as a fuel for cars because it can be produced domestically,, circulating money through the national economy for economic growth, and since alcohol burns somewhat cleaner than gasoline, it reduces pollution. This makes productive use of corn surpluses and helps keep... read more

The federal government is responsible for making policy in many areas from health care to the use of natural resources to fighting forest fires. The media, meaning newspapers, have been pointing out the dangers of MRSA, that is, methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus with eighty thousand new cases... read more

It’s enough to strike terror into the heart of anyone who uses the computer for employment: the knowledge that emails haven’t made it through the internet maze. Let me tell you, very few things can make a person feel more defenseless and vulnerable. Even horrendous illnesses and injuries have some... read more

Have you become so used to your colors, fonts and type sizes that it drives you crazy to use someone else’s computer? We’re becoming pretty spoiled in being able to make so many personal choices. Case in point-this morning we did maintenance on our system and found that Yahoo is continuing to persist... read more