Oil and Snake Oil
The big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is bad enough in itself. But politics can make anything worse.
Let's stop and think. Either the government knows how to stop the oil spill or they don't. If they know how to stop it, then why have they let thousands of barrels of oil per day keep gushing out, for weeks on end? All they have to do is tell BP to step aside, while the government comes in to do it right.
by Thomas Sowell
on July 15, 2010, 10:57 am
The buck stops where?
Remember the woman who bought a cup of coffee at McDonald’s some years ago and propped it in her lap while she drove off. It promptly spilled all over her, of course, and apparently burned her rather badly.
by Dawn Dillon Barrett, Gazette Contributing Editor
on July 15, 2010, 10:54 am
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Last week we visited the local mall in search of a couple of items; it was almost completely devoid of shoppers, much less buying customers. Two of the anchor stores had less than ten customers each and you had to take a long walk to find an employee. People appear to be past the cautious stage in their spending; one can say that the fear of the unknown has reduced shopping to bare essentials.
by Guy Geller, Gazette Contributing Editor
on July 15, 2010, 10:41 am
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele was absolutely right. Afghanistan is Obama's war and, judging by other recent Democratic ventures in military affairs, isn't likely to turn out well.
It has been idiotically claimed that Steele's statement about Afghanistan being Obama's war is "inaccurate" -- as if Steele is unaware Bush invaded Afghanistan soon after 9/11. (No one can forget that -- even liberals pretended to support that war for three whole weeks.)
by Ann Coulter
on July 15, 2010, 10:38 am
Lazy Sunday Chicken Pasta Salad
1 rotisserie chicken
1 bag small pasta shells, cooked and drained
1 can garbanzo beans, drained
1 can sliced black olives, drained
1 small box grape tomatoes
1 bag frozen artichoke hearts, cooked according to directions on package
1 small jar pesto
1 small jar sundried tomato pesto
1 bunch green onions, chopped
* juice of 1 lemon
1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
* Slap ya Mama® seasoning
* dash of Worcestershire
* dash of Tabasco
Mix all together in large bowl. Chill. Serves 6 to 8.
by Anne McKeown
on July 15, 2010, 10:33 am
I asked my daughter, Addy, what parents should know about teenagers today. She immediately had a response: “Parents of teens need to understand that we know a lot about things—more than they think, probably. We get it from TV, Internet and our friends.”
Boy, did I know this to be a true statement. Just watching TV now will let tell you that. The innuendoes and outright too-much- information peppered throughout even on a Primetime sitcom are not misunderstood by a teenager.
by Allyn M. Evans, Gazette Contributing Editor
on July 15, 2010, 10:29 am
The time is ripe ~
“A world without tomatoes is like a
string quartet without violins.” – Laurie Colwin
A world without tomatoes? I can’t bear the thought. The homegrown ones are acomin’ in, and hubby G-Man and I are in gustatory heaven – sliced tomatoes with our poached eggs in the morning, BLTs for lunch, a salad heaped with maters with our chicken in the evening.
Is there anything better? Silly question.
by Beth Jacks, Gazette Delta Editor
on July 15, 2010, 10:22 am
William Hendricks once identified three basic lifestyles now being lived out on this planet. He called them the lifestyles of coping, choosing and changing. The copers are the folk who possess little or no power and thus spend their days and their nights simply trying to survive amid circumstances they are unable to change. Just getting through the night is their number one objective.
by Rev. W. Lamar Massingill
on July 8, 2010, 2:15 pm
IF ONLY WE KNEW
As it turned out, it really was a chance of a lifetime.
Since retiring and moving to Jackson, Beth and I make occasional runs back to Kosciusko in attempts to tie up those proverbial “loose ends”. On our most recent pilgrimage, my partially empty gas tank provided a reasonable excuse to patronize one of my favorite local businesses, Town Pump—service station/cor-ner coffee shop combo. After settling up inside and treating myself to a cup of the always freshly brew, I was headed back to my car when an imposing black pickup truck wheeled in and jerked to a stop.
by Stanley Hartness, MD
on July 8, 2010, 2:10 pm
Addy got the good news her braces would come off in early June. It is such a monumentous occasion, Addy’s orthodontist schedules a day every six weeks strictly for his patients who are having their hardware removed. We were both thrilled. For me it meant fewer orthodontist trips and the end of buying soft mushy foods every six weeks. For Addy it meant lots more—including bypassing the minor pain that followed every check-up.
by Allyn Evans
on July 8, 2010, 1:57 pm
