Friday Morning Drive To Work Muse…

Only in Houston could you hear a 66° temperature referred to as a “chilly autumn morning”. All summer I’ve been amazed by the weather prognosticators descriptive adjectives. The mid-nineties and

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Saying It’s So Don’t Make It So…

What happens when credit markets seize up? We are beginning to see the result now: Businesses can’t expand or don’t open, houses aren’t bought or sold, and economic growth slows

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Blog Action Day – Poverty

Poverty (also called penury) is deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life, including food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, and may also include the deprivation of

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An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief – Michael Pollan

This link is as much for me as it is for you few folks who read these daily musings. Farmer in Chief By MICHAEL POLLAN Dear Mr. President-Elect, It may

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Paul Krugman Wins Economics Nobel

Paul Krugman, a professor at Princeton University and an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday. “It’s been an

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Bob Dylan’s ‘Tell Tale Signs’

Widely regarded as America’s greatest living songwriter, Bob Dylan has written and recorded some of the most influential and acclaimed music of the past century. With countless studio albums, compilations

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