The task seemed simple enough. Take to the internet in search of a new patio rug. I started with one of the more popular online sites and before I even had a chance to browse the selections, there it was, in all its disgrace, a banner ad blaring out: “memorial day blowout – 70%...
When Joplin was ripped apart on that afternoon of Sunday, May 22, 2011 I was safe at home recovering from outpatient surgery. It would take an agonizing four more days before I could do anything of value in town so I did the only thing I could at the time. I scribbled together some...
From whatever direction, you see it from miles out as you make your approach. A great white sentinel jutting out of the flatness. A marvel of engineering holding within its over fifty bins over 2.2 million bushels of the seeds that feed a world. If the life blood of a city is its office...
The second Iraq War and the twenty-year effort in Afghanistan have cost the U.S. treasury approximately $3 trillion dollars. And that doesn’t account for the incalculable price of over 7,000 dead. Considering the state of affairs in those countries today, a cost/benefit analysis points strongly to the “not worth the cost” column. Domestically, a...
“I will not impose any tax increase on people making less than $400,000. But it’s time for corporate America and the wealthiest one percent of Americans to just begin to pay their fair share.” Those words are from President Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress last Wednesday evening. And they are...