With the price at the pump rising past four dollars a gallon and no end in sight, everyone's favorite "Gee I wish" is for cheaper gas prices. This is surely to be desired. Regretfully, relief is more of an illusion than an achievable reality, especially in the short run. Since it is about to be dragged into the presidential campaign, it might be useful to examine a few unpleasant aspects of the reality. To the man on the street, the dream of energy independence has been equated to gasoline cheap enough for him to continue to operate his gas hog, 12-miles-to-the-gallon SUV into the future. ...more

June 12, 2008

Three-year-old Peyton Mayhew is no aficionado of fine art. She quickly became bored with coloring the outlines of the sun with a paintbrush and switched to a sponge. Soon the tiles she was creating to present as awards for the first Cure Kids Cancer Challenge were simply a colorful collage of pinks and purples, her favorite colors. ...more

September 20, 2007