What About This?

By Wayne William Cipriano Almost everyone you talk with agrees we need some sort of health care reform. Most also agree the most important part of reform is to somehow control the escalating costs. And there are almost as many different approaches to that control as there are people with opinions. But every approach has…

By Wayne William Cipriano They say there are going to be fewer political advertisements on television this election cycle mainly because fewer people are watching television. We will see about that. They also say there will be fewer negative political ads this time around because negative ads do not seem to be as effective as…

By Wayne William Cipriano It’s FREE! Yes, my friend, it is ABSOLUTELY FREE! When we see or hear those words we wonder about the subject, the item, the service being offered to us. Of course, depending on what is being offered, we have different questions, but there is one thing about which we can be…

By Wayne William Cipriano I was surprised when I heard a national news show’s discussion roundtable pose the question, “Is the inappropriate use of prescription drugs a large problem in our society?” Based on the information I have received from the media, it seems to me that for quite some time the most serious drug…

By Wayne William Cipriano Another horror story involving a person impossible to characterize –– Criminal? Murderous? Twisted? Sociopathic? Monstrous? Psychotic? Each may fit and yet, all and more fail to communicate our repugnance of persons who kill those around them and then kill themselves ostensibly to collect retribution from a society that has wronged them.…

By Wayne William Cipriano How do you feel about junk mail? I really like it! When I am lucky I find 8 ½” x11” sheets of paper that are printed on one side only that can be used for carbon copies when typing. Even when the blank-on-one-side sheets are smaller they serve as notepaper. (I…

By Wayne William Cipriano It is very difficult to dislike someone who is feeding your family when your family is hungry even if you share great philosophical, political, spiritual differences with them. I’m not talking about feeding the hungry in exchange for good deals on their natural resources, for their commercial markets, so they will…

By Wayne William Cipriano Progressive Farmer magazine caters mostly to technically adept large-scale farmers so it is not written for me, but I enjoy reading it anyway. In two successive issues the magazine concentrated on the dangerous degree to which human population is outpacing our ability to feed ourselves and in the next issue the…

By Wayne William Cipriano The other day I heard a guy say that there was absolutely no logical argument that opposes the require­ment that voters show picture iden­tification in order to cast a ballot during an election. He said, “they require a picture ID to drive a car, cash a check, etc., etc., there isn’t…

By Wayne William Cipriano We’ve all heard a lot about climate change over the last several years, listened to liberal and conservative radio commentators battle it out, perhaps even read Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and Crichton’s State of Fear, certainly watched television reports with dueling authorities. They cannot all be correct, can they? The more…