Who Needs Health Care Reform?
Certainly not the insurance companies. You just made a $2.7 billion - with a “b” - profit in the last quarter, so what do you do? You raise rates 39%. What a great country we have!
Strange Days
It’s been an unusual winter in central Mississippi, because for the first time in what seems like years, we’ve had winter. Some recent winters have seen only a few nights where temperatures got below freezing - which makes for a bumper crop of bugs the next spring. But we saw snow - very [...]
End Of An Era
I’ve been a subscriber to US News And World Report for over 30 years. For all those years, it was my favorite news magazine. But the next issue will be my last. A few months back, US News changed from being a weekly magazine to a monthly, with “digital editions” in between [...]
In The Garden
While Mississippi isn’t known for rocks, I do have some in my garden as accents. My in-laws own about 250 acres about 40 miles from my house. While wandering the property years ago, I found a small outcropping of some fairly large rocks, probably sandstone. I moved a few to my garden. [...]
Scorched Earth In The Drug War
The Mississippi legislature this week passed a bill that makes pseudoephedrine available only by prescription. Unless some miraculous event causes him to rethink his position, Governor Barbour will sign the bill, and many will consider this a major step towards defeating the meth labs. I’m not one of them. Pseudoephedrine already was [...]
