Dude, I Want My Country Back!
(with completely insincere apologies to Michael Moore) Something has happened to this country. Or perhaps it’s the entire world, I don’t know, but I do know that what’s become the norm in our society disturbs me greatly. I learned a ...

How Much Wood Can a Woodchuck Chuck or Variations on the American Economic Picture
What an interesting juncture at which we find ourselves! Wall Street has begun to stir again - tentatively at least – but the economic picture overall remains, if not bleak, at least something a lot short of thriving. I mean, ...

To Dustin69g: Or You Little Weasel
Dustin: I received an email this evening from the VA stating that you'd posted a comment on my "wall" to the effect, and I quote from said email: "LOL you must be a filthy dirty pig to stick up for...

Math 11E12: Economic Stimulus Mathematics
It’s a slow, overcast day in NW Louisiana and it being the last day of my latest stretch of vacation, I’ve been perusing the postings here looking for something to get excited about.  I see not much has changed around ...

Uncle Sam's Plantation
The following is a reproduction of an editorial that appeared in the Orange County Register on 9 Feb. 2009. (Yes, that's Orange County as in California. The Left Coast. It seems they may not ALL be as whacko out there ...

News From the Swamp
How y'all are!?!?! I fear I will have to resume my daily forays to the VA website. I've been perusing the Shreveport Times and have even started a blog thereon but alas, it seems these cajuns are far from having ...

Vaya Con Dios Victoria!
Well, the time has come – finally, it seems – for us to say goodbye to Victoria. After weeks of haggling with the ivory tower, head shed people about where I’d be of the most use to the company, seeking ...

Singin' the Relocation Blues
Well, Julie and I have been in Bossier City since Sunday last working feverishly on procuring a real place to live here in our new hometown. I have to say it's not been a picnic trying to purchase a home ...

A Joke is a Crime; A Crime is a Joke
Where are our priorities?! The unfortunate (much too mild a word) antic of Chip Saltsman's (Former Tennessee State Rep. Chair, Huckabee campaign head and would-be National Rep. Chair) Christmas gift of satirist Paul Shanklin's parody music to his associates is ...

Fixing America: The Financial Crisis
Fixing American: The Financial Crisis   I read an interesting article today entitled “All That Money You’ve Lost – Where Did It Go?” The piece had to do with all the imaginary wealth many of us have had in stocks, ...