No one is accountable,
By Dugan Barr
What do we need to do to get our country back on track economically?
The first thing we need to do is to recognize that we have a willful family member with an unlimited credit card who is entirely out of control. That family member is the Pentagon. In the guise of protecting the country, it is undermining the very basis of our economic freedom by throwing money away.
If our economy collapses, we are at the mercy of people who do not have the milk of human kindness in any vein. Continue Reading



Nature abhors a vacuum, and so do I.
Saturday afternoon a thunderous rumble on the road outside my house brought me to my Igo kitchen window. The sound grew progressively louder. About 50 motorcyclists roared by. Some bikes had American flags and various military branch flags that waved in the warm wind.

If deer roam through your garden, keep in mind this garden proverb: You can fool all of the deer some of the time, but you can’t fool some of the deer all the time.
It took me the better part of six or seven months to finally learn the pronunciation of my favorite neighborhood bistro, Le Sot l’y Laisse (luh sew-lee-less). Sot in French means “silly” or “foolish,” laisse is from the verb to leave, as in “leave it alone” or “leave it there.”