We all have favorite books, films, and foods. Books, films, and foods we always gyrate to when we need a treat, refresher, or to prove a salient point. I stumbled across a marvelous book several years ago in a Phoenix, AZ used book store. I paid $6.50 for it, and was glad to do it […]

Why can’t we learn?  Forty years ago, LBJ insisted on a continual infusion of troops into Vietnam, eventually, as I remember, there were over 700,000, and still we lost.  More troops solved nothing.  Iraqis are outraged that their homeland has been invaded by foreign troops for no reason, and the way to stop violence against […]

Why does diesel fuel cost an average of fifty cents per gallon more than gasoline?  Since there is a lot more diesel fuel obtained from a barrel of oil, and at far lower cost than gasoline, why should it cost fifty or even sixty cents more per gallon?  We use two Mercedes diesels, both 1985 […]