AUSTRALIAN LETTER OF THE YEAR
One of the many qualities of my Australian Brethren is their ability to speak and write how they feel. Their language is colorful and they are brilliant in their ability to sort out the wheat from the chaff and inject a sense of humor into their prosaic. An Aussie friend sent me up this letter [...]
IF ONLY THE MINERS HAD A STRONG UNION…
The recent disaster in West Virginia shows to me that poor rural people living in a backward state actually count for little. West Virginia is probably the poorest state in the union. For decades coal mining companies have enjoyed cozy relationships with State and Federal governments especially in West Virginia. The senior W.V. Senator is [...]
BUREAUCRACY GONE CRAZY
The Tea Party’s platform of less tax and less government would go across far better in Europe than it does here. Every time I go to the post office and get stuck in a half hour long queue (looking at ten windows with clerks behind only two of them) and all I want to buy [...]
THE VALUE OF PETS
To avoid interruptions and writer’s cramp, I generally pen my blog from home. Today it has been a marathon effort. I am blessed to enjoy the tranquility of being able to look out of my home office window watch the birds sing and bathe in my two bird baths in my shrub and flower filled [...]
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