Gilded Blowout
July 5, 2012In this the day after our Independence Day, the world looks about the same from up here on California’s northern coast, although the real word of the day yesterday (via Urban Dictionary) was “Freedom Fondle”…
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Extreme Fireworks: ‘A truly peculiar moment’
July 4, 2012Here on California’s northern coast it’s cool and moist way-early this July 4, and most-likely will evolve into another sweet day — clear and warm. Nowadays, the word, ‘warm,’ however, is way-relative. Travel just a…
Gas of ‘Plunder’
July 3, 2012Although prices at us gas pumps are down and people will still hit the road this week, they won’t spend much along the way, especially for patriotic merchandise, including flags, apparel and decorations. And the…
Band-Aid the Bitch
July 2, 2012In the wake of the health care dust-up last week, the bat-shit crazy side of US politics won’t let it rest, and in doing so, truly revealed just how nasty and mean-spirited their hearts. This…
Mixed-Nut Legalese
June 29, 2012In the wake of yesterday’s surprise of surprises on the Supremes upholding the Affordable Care Act, a lot of people went slightly mad, most of the them from the right side of the nut bowl,…
Fancy the Fabulist
June 28, 2012As we await this morning the results of the nasty legal thoughts of the US Supreme assholes on the Affordable Care Act — a la ‘Obamacare’ — political verbiage is getting out of whack. Plain…
Corporate Lovefest
June 14, 2012One most-obvious example in the problem with modern life in the US came yesterday during the shameless, sham of a Senate hearing with JP Morgan honcho Jamie Dimon when gnarled nit-twit Jim DeMint slobbered: “We…
Mournful Morning
June 13, 2012Early in the morning can be a most-depressing place, at least viewing the state of the US, the world and my own self. Watching the news for insomniacs on ABC, the images float past of…
Horror!
June 6, 2012What a drag! When I got up this morning, switched on the laptop, pulled up CNN and saw that Scott Walker had eventually won in Wisconsin, a wailingly-loud, horrible, throat-clutching scream wanted to flee my…
Quiet Riot
June 4, 2012Jeremy Scahill, noted national security correspondent for The Nation, spoke this past weekend on the bottom line for the US drone wars: It’s murder — it’s mass murder — when you say, ‘We are going to…