By WAYNE GREENE Senior Writer on Jul 25, 2008, at 9:11 AM Updated on 7/25 at 9:11 AM
WAYNE'S WORLD
Coworkers have been riding me all day that my American history quiz on Monday’s front page was too hard.
At first, ...
Healing historic injustices – whether they are five years old or 5,000 – starts with acknowledging them, a retired diplomat ...
The number of local homeowners who see their property tax assessments go up 5 percent automatically every year is decreasing, ...
The Tulsa World doesn't carry Thomas L. Friedman's column. So, I read it in The New York Times.
On Sunday, he used a brilliant metaphor in analyzing the problem with President Bush's energy policy.
The president said gas prices are too high because of the forces of supply and demand, so we need to increase supply by drilling for more domestic oil.
Friedman said: "We don't have a 'gasoline price problem.' We have an addiction problem. We are addicted to dirty fossil fuels….
"When a person is addicted to crack cocaine, his problem is not that the price of crack is going up. His problem is what that crack addiction is doing to his whole body. The cure is not cheaper crack, which would only perpetuate his addiction and all the problems it is creating. The cure is to break the addiction."
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