Author: Izzy

Two AP articles snagged, nay, demanded my attention today.  First this: Americans’ Savings Rates Decline in 2005 WASHINGTON — Americans are spending everything they’re making and more, pushing the national...

We’ve all been told often that 9/11 changed everything.  We’ve been told many things:  that we are not safe, that we must make sacrifices, and we have had many things done in our name. As a nation, we have...

This morning I was out walking and I suddenly heard this teeny-tiny frantic barking.  I stopped and looked toward the sound and saw a little brown blur flying towards me.   I bent down to either block or pat the furry...

It’s long been feared that the City of New Orleans would take a direct hit from a hurricane.  What made it such a danger was not the prospect of hurricane force winds directly hitting a densely populated region...

Tomorrow in Colorado, the ashes of journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson will be blown out of a cannon in keeping with his wishes.  I wrote the following last February, and I re-post it now in his memory. We’re All Liars...