Acy sticks in my mind. I cannot get him out of my mind. I don’t mind him there. He is the one who touches me. “BP is trying to move out,” he says. “Oil is there,” he says. “We have oil on the bottom of our waterways. 90% of the oil is still there. We [...]
Read moreWe are back from a fascinating and exhilarating experience with the GIC (www.interdependence.org). One of our delegate colleagues was John Mauldin, who has already published commentary on the trip. He has given us permission to share it with our readers. Excerpts from his report are below.
Read moreAs I mentioned last Monday night in my Outside the Box, I did not make it to Turks and Caicos, but did end up in Baton Rouge for a special seminar on the Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill. I have both good news (or maybe more like less-bad news) and bad news. Today’s letter is [...]
Read moreWe dined on Aug. 11 at the Governor’s Mansion in Baton Rouge and were hosted by the Lieutenant Governor of the state of Louisiana, Scott Angelle, who was elegant, gracious, charming, and informative. He was a Democrat, he was quick to tell us, and with self-deprecating reassurance, about the most “underwhelming” person in a high [...]
Read moreThe estimated 4.9 million barrels of crude that flowed into the Gulf of Mexico from the Macondo well was the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Not surprisingly, the resulting damage to the livelihoods of fishermen and other Gulf Coast businesses, and the environmental threat to delicate natural habitats, created a media and political furor.
Read moreWe are a nation of infants. Short on vision, short on delay of gratification, driven by desires which we experience as needs. Luxuries we deem necessities. Power, lucre. We are greedy, glutinous. Witness the steadily increasing width of the ever ravenous man, woman, child on the street. Like the typical two year old, we want [...]
Read moreAfter traveling for a week in Prague and Paris, we can report that there are few optimists on Europe – either among the Americans we were traveling with or the Europeans that we met. However, the pessimists had a wide variety of reasons for their negative outlook and often the root of their concern was [...]
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