http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Richard+Ide Politics Richard Ide Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=289007&ca=Politics Let's get real. Forget all the Gobbledegook about foreign oil fields peaking and the rapid increase in worldwide consumption… 1. Oil production in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Mexico, Russia, HAS either peaked, or it has NOT peaked. (Consider that each of those countries have poor records in... Writing Richard Ide Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=286148&ca=Writing The more I pondered the mystery, the deeper it grew: big trucks everywhere…around me every day of my life. Yet I found I knew nothing about trucking or the people manning the cabs — outside of one hokey Hollywood film that threw an ape in there with the driver. How was anyone to get a true picture o... Society Richard Ide Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=283467&ca=Society PTSD is an acronym for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a dysfunctional condition resulting from on-the-spot contact with an event, or series of events which shock mind or body to the extent that the condition is engendered. The mind is principally affected, but it can affect the subject's motor syst... Writing Richard Ide Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=280906&ca=Writing I'd like to tell you that Dawn came fully clad out of the cleft head of Zeus...but that would be avoiding truth in favor of myth. To give you a fair answer, the character of Dawn contains a part of every woman I've ever known — from my own mother, to my former wife, down to the wildest tigress I eve... Writing Richard Ide Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=278609&ca=Writing What happened to the bull whacker of old? With the evolution of the automobile and the truck, the "freighters" (Conestoga wagons) of Santa Fe and Oregon trail days, pulled by teams of oxen and urged on by the bull whackers, evolved into today's eighteen wheelers. Interstate highways gradually replac... Automotive Richard Ide Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=277833&ca=Automotive 1. Thou shalt deliver thy load on time: a. Even when dispatched 5 minutes after delivery is due. b. Night or day—whether black ice, deluge, fog, or flame. 2. Bestow pity upon thy dispatcher: a. Whenever he proves himself a raving jackass… b. Forgive him, for he is weak. 3. Honor thy truck: a. Neithe...