Sixty years is not so long — I’m five years older, Ha! Chevrolet Corvette — It was a gold idea that almost became a disaster and now is an icon representing the best of General Motors.…

This morning, news cycles were delightfully alighted with reports Ed Snowden had gone on the lamb, international style, a fare-thee well to Hong Kong, and after an airline flight across some vast open spaces, ended…

Today is Saturday — six years ago it was a Friday: June 22, 2007. My first day on the job at the liquor store I now manage. The owner was then involved in a overwrought,…

Since the election last November, the US has witnessed maybe a watershed shift with life in America, and especially the view of President Obama. Just a bit more than a month after the polls had…

Yipee! Friday! Overcast and gloomy again this morning on California’s north coast, but like yesterday and the day before and the day before that, the sun will come and all will be happy. Still high…

“Fort Meade has 18 acres of mainframe computers underground. You’re talking to your wife on the phone and you use the word ‘bomb,’ ‘president,’ ‘Allah,’ any of a hundred keywords, the computer recognizes it, automatically…

(Illustration found here). In the midst of mid-week and the crisis of life is far from ending — beyond America’s past, pastime being full of shit, especially if our First Lady scolds a heckler, or White…

Clear skies this way-too-early Tuesday on California’s north coast and we’re forecast for another ‘hot’ day (65 degrees) in a slightly modified heat wave. Weather is wherever you are. I’m a ‘baby boomer’ — those…

One recent political, ricochet-rabbit-bombshell has been President Obama’s budget proposal — bits of it leaked two weeks ago, the whole shebang officially released last Wednesday — parts of which include cuts to Social Security through…