What’s ginormous to you may be gaudy to me

Have you seen the poster? It’s everywhere, everywhen!   (Partly because they have postered over every other goshdarn poster in town, but still) … IT SHOUTS AT YOU! LOOK AT ME! I’M EXCITING! I’M COLORFUL! YOU NEED ME TO MAKE YOUR LIFE BETTER!
You’d think by the [...]

Quote of the Decade

“The hallmarks of this presidency will be transparency and the rule of law.” – Barack Obama

Sorting through the mess

Like most folks, I don’t completely understand the financial crisis our nation is in. But, my lack of full comprehension doesn’t make the questions less compelling. No matter what you call it – a fiscal disaster, a banking crisis, a liquidity issue, or a banking bailout, the questions remain.
These days it seems [...]

Did you get yours?

The federal government recently pocketed nearly $20 billion by selling off something you owned. Your share of the auction of the analog TV spectrum should be roughly $175. So, if you called up to get a coupon for a converter box and they told you that there’s already 1.35 million people ahead [...]

Just because its cheap, doesn’t make it clean ..

That’s the toxic coal ash spill from last month in Tennessee (photo courtesy of The Knoxville News Sentinel). It is a typical hazard of the burning of coal for electricity. All that fly ash has to go somewhere. All around the nation, more than 124 million pounds of toxic heavy [...]

Proper behavior

The students at Sentinel High School are, apparently, learning an important civics lesson. Unfortunately, they may be learning the wrong one. Instead of valuing good public process, they may be learning how to whine about government and its inevitable mountain of paperwork.
In order to tell the world about their oh-so-important high school activities, [...]