The Certified Skeptic

written Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Election Day.
Here’s an opinion piece by Bob Herbert of the New York Times that struck a chord with me. On this election day, it points out some very troublesome issues with our Nation, our Leadership, and ourselves.
Link To Bob Herbert Article in the NYT
Thom

Here’s a pertinent article I found while surfing around looking for more information on the credit and economic crisis.
For what it’s worth…
How to Ruin the U.S. Economy
by Ben Stein
Posted on Monday, October 6, 2008, 12:00AM
1) Have a fiscal policy that creates immense deficits in good times and bad, burdening America’s posterity with staggering burdens of […]

I found the following website while searching the web for information about the current credit crisis and our economic system in general. It takes about three hours to listen/watch all 20 chapters, but was well worth the time in my humble opinion.
http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse
I’d really like to hear from anyone with comments and criticism of the ideas […]

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
I’m sure you noticed that during the past few weeks I’ve had some ads lined up along the right side of my web pages. These ads were Google “Adsense” ads — a program that makes it very easy for people like me to place targeted ads on web pages and get paid […]

Monday, April 21, 2008
(from The Sabbatical Journal)
Increasing costs for food, fuel, air travel, and almost everything we buy is affecting all of us — and it’s really beginning to bite. Gas is approaching $4/gallon, diesel is well over $4. The price of cereal grains is at near record levels. The common denominator in this problem […]

In reference to a Reuters article by Tim Gaynor on 12/24/07 titled “Illegal immigrants “self deport” as woes mount”.
The article is about an increasing number of illegal immigrants deciding to return to Mexico because of a worsening economy in the USA and flagging hopes for an easy path to citizenship in the United States.
The following […]

It’s raining and cold tonight, so I’m not sitting out in my garage. “What”, you say? “Has Dar kicked you out of the house again”? Give me a chance to explain.
This spring, when I chill-out before and after dinner, I’ve come to prefer sitting outside facing the front of the house instead of our […]

The Virginia Tech massacre was a terrible tragedy for those involved. The concentrated carnage — so many at one time in one place — is a rare event in our society. We internalize the horror each victim must have felt in those moments… as they waited, not knowing what to do… as they watched […]