Let’s start with a couple of indisputable and opposite facts. There is literacy and illiteracy. This is an absolute law, just as the law of physics that states every action has an equal and opposite reaction. But unlike physics, the literacy/illiteracy law is not absolute. In fact, it’s more than ...read more

It’s September again and most of the kids are going back to school, or going for the first time. But it isn’t like it used to be. Not by a long shot. When I went to school from the late ‘40s thru the early ‘60s (I know. I’m dating myself.), the ...read more

In many ways it always has been.  Simply put, the economy is at the root of everything we do.  For example, despite President George H.W. Bush’s success with the first Gulf War, he was unseated in 1992 by Bill Clinton’s use of  “It’s The Economy, Stupid!” Did that phrase have any ...read more

One of the banes of modern society is the generally despised bean counter. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, let me tell you a story that actually happened. During the 1970s, I did quite a bit of business with an aerospace company that, for obvious reasons, will not ...read more

MISSING IN ACTION: The Little Red Hen. SPECIES: Chicken. SUB-SPECIES: Rhode Island Red. LOCATION: Golden Books in literature. Small towns, farms and ranches in real life. Linda Brady Traynham’s recent missive on the chicken mess and the coming dismantling of chicken farming, if a Federal lawsuit is successful, will also lead to the demise ...read more

As has already been noted so eloquently by Linda Traynham, the current Cash For Clunkers bill that wended its pathetic way thru what currently passes for the United States Congress and now requires nothing more than Obama's signature to become law, is designed for exactly one thing.  Or two, if ...read more

Texas--being as large, diverse and unique as we are--finds it quite possible to mess up in entertaining ways. More times than we care to admit, bills emerge from the Texas Legislature that are so ridiculous they make our politicians look like a bunch of untalented stand-up comedians, though the ...read more

Round and round GM goes and where she stops, nobody knows.  Even a cursory examination of the various news reports, on the net at MSNBC or through the spoon-feeding of NBC Nightly News that arrives via your nice, new, widescreen digital television set, reaches the conclusion that no one really ...read more