Mars-Mercury-Neptune On The Road

“If anything I might have just said has helped you, if anything I might have just said helped you just carry on, your rise uphill may no longer seem a struggle and your appetite for pain may all but be gone.”
–Blues Traveler, “Just Wait”

Welcome Home, all US Soldiers!

Thoughts about Memorial Day May 28, 2012

by Jude Cowell

At NPR, Scott Simon’s Remembering a Hero on Memorial Day gives a gentle and touching tribute to Vietnam soldier Leslie Sabo, who gave his all for his country 42 years ago–my generation. Click for the text, plus, the audio of Mr. Simon’s report will be online around 12:00 pm et today and it’s worth a listen if you missed it this morning.

Welcome Home, all US Soldiers!

Thoughts about Memorial Day May 28, 2012

by Jude Cowell

At NPR, Scott Simon’s Remembering a Hero on Memorial Day gives a gentle and touching tribute to Vietnam soldier Leslie Sabo, who gave his all for his country 42 years ago–my generation. Click for the text, plus, the audio of Mr. Simon’s report will be online around 12:00 pm et today and it’s worth a listen if you missed it this morning.

Opportunities

I’ll keep this short as I’m catching up on last weeks television when I should be catching up on the sleep I didn’t get last night on the overnight flight from Bali.
Unfortunately, I have never seemed to learn how to sleep on an overnight flight…

Of Robber Barons, Romney, and Campaign 2012

"A corporation has no rights except those given it by law. It can exercise no power except that conferred upon it by the people through legislation, and the people should be as free to withhold as to give, public interest and not private advantage being the end in view."

-William Jennings Bryan in his address to the Ohio 1912 Constitutional Convention

May 10, 2012 was the 126th anniversary of