"I have a place to go......

When life weighs down on me.

Gas prices have reached the stage where they've begun to have a negative effect on almost every level of our economy.

At $4 a gallon and still rising, even the oil companies realize they've reached a limit that is forcing the government to curtail this unprecedented expression of greed. But cutting off this windfall of profits that has, to a great degree, been enabled and condoned by leaders, will be a difficult assignment. Trying to appease two opposing forces at the same time always is.

Talk about reality shows on the tube.

How about the news programs?

What do you call an organization that has everything going for it, but is still failing?

Let's take the airlines for example. Not just one of them ... all of them.

I really don't care who these so-called super delegates are. Except, of course, if as their name implies, they are considered superior to me. I don't even care how they vote, unless their vote is decisive.

What I really care about is their very existence and the whole idea behind it.

I find that I have to admire the inventiveness of American Big Business.

Even as they tighten their stranglehold on fuel costs for a nation that moves almost exclusively on wheels and a gas guzzling engine and maintains a manipulative upwardly swirling control of our cost of living -- they plan for future large scale rip offs,

Do you know what a conundrum is? It's something that baffles or perplexes.

Well, that's what we're facing now in the ongoing race for the presidency.

More and more often, after I've read the morning paper, I find myself asking, "Just what is going on?"

I count myself as a reasonably informed citizen with normal curiosity and interest in what's happening in the world.

More and more often, after I've read the morning paper, I find myself asking, "Just what is going on?"

I count myself as a reasonably informed citizen with normal curiosity and interest in what's happening in the world.