by Gary Ivey | Mar 21, 2012 | Current Posts
Growing up, I was a fan of the Peanuts comic strip. It was always a joy to see Snoopy aboard his Sopwith Camel, Schroeder channeling Beethoven or Linus quoting Kirkegaard. It was also Linus who annually lamented the failure of the Great Pumpkin to appear: “How...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 16, 2012 | Current Posts
Apparently Chuck Schumer believes drilling in Saudi Arabia will lower US gasoline prices but drilling in the US will not. According to New York Senator Charles Schumer, the fact that the Saudi Arabians are increasing oil production is good news, because that will...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 11, 2012 | Current Posts
In spite of how it might appear sometimes (previous post), I’m not at all opposed to developing alternate energy sources. Yes I wrote a novel (“Backlash”) that follows a fictional Big Oil company executive who is the heroine (!) of the book. But that...
by Gary Ivey | Feb 27, 2012 | Current Posts
My friend Terry Freeman found this word: Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed,...
by Gary Ivey | Feb 27, 2012 | Current Posts
As gas prices continue to edge up past $3.60 per gallon, President Obama went to Florida and made a scoffing speech about energy, in which he insisted that more oil was being produced during his administration and we should just shut up about the current price of...
by Gary Ivey | Feb 17, 2012 | Current Posts
“All your S’s look like F’s”, said Ben Franklin to Tom Jefferson in a classic Stan Freberg radio skit (YouTube) about the writing of the Declaration of Independence, concerning Jefferson’s flourishing Colonial penmanship. Interestingly,...
