Mary Margaret Park

Americans showed up to the polls and voted in record numbers. The turmoil that our country has seen, from the war in Iraq, to the economic crisis’s has broken through the complacency that’s blanketed our dreams. In Barack Obama’s victory speech, he spoke of the need for all Americans to work together and to get [...]

The fiscal, irresponsibility of big businesses, is very out of control. First Enron, now the banking crisis and it seems; as if, many American’s, support the government bailout? I don’t believe doing this sends the right message to corporate-entities; all it really does is pat corporations on the back for being monetarily-irresponsible. Supporters of the [...]

I just watched “Real Time with Bill Maher” on HBO; the upcoming election has proved to be fodder for playing the usual blame game. Democrats versus Republicans…? That “he said, she said”, syndrome; it accomplishes nothing and instead makes everyone look foolish. Face it, our government is a mess, and it’s pointless to place blame [...]

Okay, not really, but I suppose it’s no wonder that the Soviets are master Vodka producers. I wonder how they keep all the factory workers sober…can you imagine a bunch of drunken Russians milling around the factory? Touting the days of Gorbachev’s Perestroika? I worked for “AE Staley” in ‘Decatur Illinois’ one summer. They make [...]