venting raging: Just the Facts!
- 01/22/07 12:00 PM
A very important lesson I learned some time ago was reinforced in the past few days. Springfield, Missouri has suffered from one of the all-time worst ice storms in history. The ice started falling from the sky on Friday, January 12. Today is Monday, January 22, and over 13,000 customers (more than just 13,000 people) of Springfield's City Utilities are still without power. Lots of cold weather here, just not nearly enough heat. Those people still without power are understandably losing patience with our public utility. But it's not necessarily because they don't have power. It's more likely to be because they … (1 comments)
venting raging: No News Is Good News
- 01/10/07 02:29 AM
I recently made the decision that I would stop watching news coverage on TV and stop reading the newspaper (except the comics, of course). As a result, I've rarely felt better. Don't get me wrong - I know that a republic functions best with informed citizens. But at this point in my life, I'm tired of being so informed. I've met a lot of people that don't know where Macedonia is, who don't know who the Secretary General of the United Nations is, and who don't know the current price of a barrel of west Texas crude oil, and they all seem … (8 comments)
A very important lesson I learned some time ago was reinforced in the past few days.
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