While a consortium of a dozen companies try to come up with the funds to build a factory to devise an affordable, safe, small electric car battery (according to a recent story on NPR) executives of banks that got taxpayer—funded bailouts received 1.6 billion in executive compensation this year,… Read full post »

The failure of the Senate to pass the bailout bill for the automakers yesterday is just another example of how the government is completely out of touch with the people of the United States of America.

Granted, I am not one of those who believes that the ordinary American is inherently… Read full post »

I had this admittedly crazy idea to fly up north and fly with my mother back down to my small Virginia town so that she could spend a couple of days with me, see my teenaged daughter whom she hasn’t seen since this summer when we went up to celebrate her… Read full post »

We were both on Match.com.  He looked at my photo.  I had cancelled my membership after having a very nice time dating some very nice men, but I was getting ready to move, life had gotten hectic, I had had some fun and I was taking a break.  I looked at… Read full post »

Just the mere mention of Sarah Palin’s 7 million dollar book deal (which isn’t even inked yet) was enough to generate 52 pages of comment in the Huffington Post, all of them negative and most of them involving the question of whether crayons would be handed out with copies of the… Read full post »

 (This article was originally published in the Huffington Post and got sort of lost in all the pre-election hoopla.  Richard, who I write about here, and his fellow travelers, are also getting lost... what do we do about them? Any suggestions?)

"I don't believe in coincidences.… Read full post »