99 Percent Income Free
December 9, 2013Despite all my crying and gnashing of teeth last night, it’s Monday morning! Again! And again, cold and clear on California’s north coast with today finally, the deep-cold of the past week might start to…
Category Archives: Finance
First, Maybe, A Flat-head Screwdriver?
December 7, 2013Cold still this Saturday morning on California’s north coast, but there’s much sunshine, and, much observed roof ice. This is the ice, though, that pisses: A former Goldman Sachs trader was sentenced on Friday to…
News PM Punch — ‘Live in a Cave’
December 4, 2013Cold and bright sunshine this mid-week afternoon on California’s north coast — and it’s supposed to really get cold around here tonight. Winter’s knocking hard, and I don’t want to let him in. Kicking in…
What’s That Stink?
December 3, 2013Clear and more than chilly this Tuesday morning up here on California’s north coast, and it seems we’re in for some cold — the high today is expected to be less than 50 degrees, and…
Black the Friday
November 29, 2013Clear with stars twinkling this early Friday on California’s north coast as we grind on through a four-day holiday of excess and salesmanship. And it’s Black Friday for the gullible and greedy. Cher has the…
Job Anxiety
November 26, 2013A few twinkling stars can be seen this way-early Tuesday here on California’s north coast, but mostly it’s wispy clouds and an indiscreet partial-moon. Economics is pretty boring unless it specifically pertains to me. And…
Oil Spoil
November 24, 2013Another crystal-clear morning this Sunday on California’s north coast and if the immediate past is any indication, this could turn to be another wonderful, ‘warm‘ day — ‘warm‘ being way-relative. The mid-70s in temperature for…
News PM Punch — ‘Hero’
November 21, 2013Crystal clear with bit of a chilled breeze this Thursday afternoon on California’s north coast — not a wisp of a cloud in sight. Typical day for these parts, bright sunshine with a little bite…
F**K the Lottery, and F**k the Assholes Who Play It!
November 20, 2013(Illustration: Vincent van Gogh’s ‘The State Lottery Office’ found here). Yesterday, just before I was about to leave work — I manage a liquor store — this clueless dip-shit comes in and upsets the whole…
News PM Punch — ‘Cyclone Cleopatra’
November 19, 2013Overcast and gray this afternoon on California’s north coast, but the outside feels warm, almost an ironic-balmy for around here — temperatures in the mid 60s, a wind whispering from the north, totally-not unpleasant. A…