August 15, 2008
Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan – ancient proverb coined by someone unknown, but ancient. The ESPN Title Town trophy has an embarrassment of fathers. The City wants it for the City Hall Lobby. The quasi governmental Valdosta Lowndes County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau wants it for the James H. Rainwater Conference […]
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August 10, 2008
Good Morning class. Open up your economics books to Chapter Four, commodities. Gasoline is a commodity. That means that no one’s gasoline is that much different from anyone else’s gasoline. Yes Bobby, even Chevron with Techron. These are known as marketing additives. These are used by the marketing departments at large oil companies to convince […]
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Let’s Fight About It Again!
August 21, 2008I have already seen the legal drinking age change twice in my life (in 1972 and 1984) and lived through two sets of “debates” on the issue. Here comes the third debate and I’m hoping I’m cremated and buried next to the drainpipe at the church (I like to swim) before I endure another. Like […]