Traveling Through Life on a Mobility Scooter
Ever since a recent trip to Las Vegas, I noticed more and more people driving mobility scooters. We are not talking about sexy Vespas here, hearkening back to the classic French and Italian films of the sixties, where young lovers tooled around Rome and Paris on their two cycle models. We are not even talking [...]
Economic Meltdown, When You Finally Get the Memo
The economic meltdown came so fast and so furiously, most of us weren’t sure how to even reaction. With the markets plummeting, housing prices on a steep decline and people getting laid off left and right, we were left with mixtures of anger and grief. To at least some degree, life as we knew it [...]
California Wildfires Are the Lesson We Never Learn
It is wildfire season in California. The first typically come in early to middle autumn when the land is dry as a bone and the Santa Ana Winds blow hot air to fan the flames. A spark here and the fire is started. A few burning embers caught up in the winds, and the fire [...]
John Edwards’ Poverty Lesson, When You Get Caught, Raise Your Prices
According to an article in the Chicago Sun-Times, John Edwards has decided to reemerge from his seclusion and go back on the public speaking circuit. He also decided to raise his speaking rates to $65,000, up from the more previous $55,000. That’s a lot of money to talk about poverty. Or maybe the cost of [...]
Fuel Prices Send American Workers Below the Border
I noticed this article in the San Diego Union-Tribune about American drivers going down below the border to buy diesel fuel at half the price they can get it here. Bus service may be halted today By Omar Millán González UNION-TRIBUNE June 19, 2008 TIJUANA – Truck and bus drivers experienced a day of chaos [...]