(Illustration: ‘The White Tiger of Autumn,’ by Kevin Lee Drum found here).

Rain and fog this morning along California’s north coast, yet a certain warmth that only in March could muster — up here the weather is about the same nearly year round as a day in January could be compared to one in July.
The outside appears to match my inside — gloomy and sad. The news sucks and so does this piece of shit laptop, which makes everything even more piss-and-moan, piss-and-moan.

And it’s inhumane stuff, crazy, absurd lunatic lunges at the soul of humanit. For instance, the assholes running the University of North Carolina have decided to drop an inquiry and a possible expulsion for a female student who said she was raped — going after the victim!
In Sweden, a supposedly more-forward nation, there’s also assholes:

A court in Sweden has found a 23-year-old woman guilty of assault after she broke the nose of a 27-year-old man who allegedly grabbed her backside at a nightclub last year.
The Metro newspaper in Sydsvenskan reported, however, that sexual assault charges against the man were dropped due to a lack of evidence.
The woman said that she had instinctively punched the man in the face after he placed a hand on her butt while they were both in Lund last summer at Gloria’s nightclub.
The man sued the woman for about $3,800 to cover the cost of his broken nose.
Lund District Court said the woman’s actions could not be considered self defense, but agreed to go easy on her because she had been a victim of “serious provocation.”
The 23-year-old woman was given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay $380 in fines.
She will also have to fork over about $280 to the alleged butt grabber.
“This goes to show that it’s okay for guys to grab girls any way they want,” the woman told the Metro, according to a translation provided by Sweden’s The Local.

And this horror about one of the greatest singers of our age:

Five-time Grammy winner Dionne Warwick, who earned millions of dollars across a half-century of stardom, now lives on a paltry $10 a month once her bills are paid off.
The 72-year-old chart-topping singer is almost broke, with only $1,000 in her bank account and a staggering $10.7 million in debts, according to her 50-page filing last week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Newark.
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The one-time voice of the Psychic Friends Network should have seen the hard times coming: Warwick had already filed for Chapter 11 protection in California in 1993.

She lost her precious way to San Jose — not funny.

Or this asshole who knew the way, but party, party, party:

He can earn million-dollar gains without anybody knowing.
He can execute make-believe trades by sending fake emails from hacked computers.
He doesn’t always lose money.
But when he does, he loses more than $6 billion.
He is … the most indebted man in the world.
Jérôme Kerviel is learning one of life’s harsher lessons: It stinks to be $6.3 billion in debt.
That’s how much his fraudulent trades in 2007 and 2008 cost French bank Société Générale, and how much he has been ordered to pay in restitution — after he gets out of jail in three years.
A judge recently upheld these terms on appeal.

Would I trust the sonofabitch to come into my liquor store for a pack of smokes?
Shit yeah!

here in the middle of the week and feeling sad. Life’s a bitch, but it ain’tno slut. Women have taken the blunt-force bullshit from all sides the last couple of years and there’s really no understanding, other than some (all of the GOP) are scared of a woman with sense. Makes them go crazy — even more so than they are already.
We can only hope the rest of this particualr day is better (and it will, because the will is so) and people get to breath easier, and feel a little happy with themselves, and don’t have some asshole trying to fuck ’em.

George Carlin, always a bright smile amongst the turnips: So far, this is the oldest I’ve been.