I like football. I really do. But to turn this game into a national holiday strikes me as pretty radical. Today's newspaper talked about retailers having higher sales now than during Halloween. I admit, Halloween is not my favorite holiday by a long shot but WHAT are people spending money on? Well, it seems that… Continue reading Super Bowl Sunday

It seems a little back pedaling is going on. The president said, in his address Tuesday night, that his plan is to cut our dependency on foreign oil by 75% by 2025. The spokesperson for the Department of Energy came out yesterday and said that the president didn't mean that statement "literally"...okay, so he meant… Continue reading State of the Union, part deux

Okay, so I'm a skeptic. But if you made your fortune in oil, and all your friends (and now administration) made their money in oil and your vice president still has money tied up in oil, would you still be inclined to search out alternative forms of energy to operate vehicles to replace oil?