Overcast with a drizzly rain this early Monday on California’s north coast as we begin another freakin’ work week. No ground shaking, though, at least there’s that.

And today is pure-booze day — St. Patrick’s is every asshole’s drinking problem, and a third of Americans planning to celebrate, with more than 80 percent of those clowns planning to wear green.

(Illustration found here).

This particular day is for drunks and those who want to be drunk. As manager of a liquor store, St. Patrick’s Day, I should be appreciative, but nothing but dumb-asses see today as special.
In normal times, Mondays are bad for heart attacks, or actually, good for heart attacks as back-to-work is a killer. But: And in fact, one study showed that the peak in heart attacks disappeared on Mondays that were holidays.
Today used to be the top day for suicide, but in the last few years, the top kill-ones-self-day is now Wednesday — thanks to social media: Today’s 24/7 social connectedness by Internet and phone may mean that people contemplating suicide aren’t as isolated over the weekend as they once were — hence, a lower risk when the weekend is over.
And by Hump Day, all seems lost.

Beyond the slobbering drunkards, the news this Monday is there’s nothing new under the bright, red moon.

— Apparently, the entire Far East is now in on the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with an already “…highly complex, multinational effort…” getting even more bizarre. They’re looking for clues via the plane’s crew, and even the aircraft maybe ending up on a tarmac in Afghanistan.
— According to exit polls, more than 93 percent of voters yesterday in the Crimea want to return to Mother Russia. President Obama and the rest of the West are absolutely horrified. Putin/Obama phone chats aren’t going anywhere, either.
— Paris has the worse smog on earth. The City of Light is gone yuk.
— And to complicate this St. Patrick’s Day, Guinness has pulled out of the famous parade today in New York. The problem? Gays and lesbians are not allowed.
— Yesterday, North Korea test-fired 25 short-range rockets off its east coast in protest ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills. The missiles were ‘unguided, old Soviet-developed FROG rockets that North Korea has been possessing since the 1960s’ and really, really revealed muscle flexing.

And there were other news, too. But it’s Monday — drink up Shriners!

(Illustration out front found here).