What? Me Ungratified?
January 9, 2012Graph of life-sized literary license this afternoon from The Big Picture: Despite nerdom for six decades, I’ve always been satisfied. So there, Mr. Cool Guy with shades.
Category Archives: Cloud Gazing
Under the Weather
January 6, 2012No, this morning it’s not about global warming — I’m sick, or feeling like I’m sick, or feeling/looking like shit, whichever applies when all else fails. Despite some good sleep, I awoke this morning still…
Oil Nerves
January 5, 2012In some political breathing room before the New Hampshire primary next week, another chance to check out how the great oil wars are performing. Yesterday, I sloshed another $20 worth of gas into my old…
Iowa Hothouse
January 4, 2012The horror of Iowa: No wobbling of that sort from Santorum — he’s an out-and-out denier. “There is no such thing as global warming,” he told a smiling Glenn Beck on Fox News in June…
Portent
January 1, 2012Another usual first day event for the new year — from CNN: For the second year in a row, dozens of blackbirds died overnight Saturday in Beebe, Arkansas, apparently after being startled by New Year’s…
Sounds of Dumb
December 30, 2011The nastiest catfight right now is taking place in the frozen wastelands of Iowa — and it’s all bullshit and way-dumb. Top-of-the-hat, ‘fer instance — Newt Gingrich thinks Sara Palin rocks and would a most-excellent…
‘Run, Forrest, Run’
December 28, 2011Books and movies are two completely different countries. In one you read by yourself (unless you’re in a group-grope book club), the other you see and hear — and the two supposedly connect when the…
Tea Cup Turbulence
December 27, 2011Climate change is corrupting Bangladesh tea — the low-lying nation has a great tea growing industry, but the warming temperatures with less rain not only stumps growth, but can alter the flavor. From Aljazeera English…
Floating Dreams
December 26, 2011Modern life isn’t what we figured a generation ago. The world is way-more high-strung, more anxiety-filled and dangerous. Just yesterday a couple of horrible tragedies — in Texas seven people were found shot to death…
Child of Now
December 25, 2011An avid movie-goer when much younger, I hadn’t set foot in a theater in years – DVDed everything — and not much appealed. In reality, I don’t really don’t care much for the medium any…