Goin’ on Holiday
August 8, 2011Today starts the first official vacation I’ve had in years — the last a near-decade ago while working for a newspaper — and the feeling is already weird. I’ll not be posting again until most-likely…
Category Archives: Cloud Gazing
Awash
August 6, 2011In a time so awash in dramatic events, especially the last couple of weeks and the debt ceiling/financial markets bombast — worse Wall Street week in three years, the US downgraded from AAA to AA+…
A Delusion of Permanence
August 4, 2011One of the most-profound problems of humankind is the inability to see no tomorrow — or at least a tomorrow so unlike today. Life continues burns in the soul. Not so fast there, Sherlock. Humanity…
Recession Depression
July 27, 2011One small glance at just about everything around us creates an Amy-Winehouse-induced sense of the blues, even while living in supposedly the greatest country on earth. As Miss Amy reveals, wealth, fame and all the…
Peak Oil — Sleepwalking Disaster Cont.
July 25, 2011Knowledge is way-preferred over ignorance, even if that knowledge makes one want to blow chunks, shit-the-pants or go run-and-hide, or maybe all three right together. My post over the weekend was on peak oil, so…
Peak Oil — Surrealistic Sleepwalking Into Disaster
July 24, 2011Greased-nuts-and-bolts and impractical machinery — reality’s pixilated dream of an era coming quickly to an end. Peak oil appears to the naked eye less chaotic than climate change — a not-so-violent soft and gradual approach…
Tuesday to Tango
July 19, 2011Pure crazy is gaining momentum by the hour, even as the entire structure of mankind’s latest reincarnation of civilization is breaking apart like an Arkansas outhouse hit by an F5 tornado. And the crazies who…
Tempestuous Turbulence
July 14, 2011Even as this debt ceiling fiasco flails about, slapping everybody in the face with its immature, self-centered, politically-charged dramatics, the planet earth itself is rapidly reaching its own ceiling, which once breached will make every-fuckin’-body…
Haboob Hello — Beyond the ‘Tipping Point’
July 6, 2011Haboob: A strong wind that occurs primarily along the southern edges of the Sahara in The Sudan and is associated with large sandstorms and duststorms and may be accompanied by thunderstorms. It usually lasts about…
Pump Pressure
June 30, 2011Once again, another $20 worth of gas in my Jeep yesterday, the pump price now at $4.09 a gallon for regular, down a whole dime since the last visit 10 days ago. Gas prices are dropping,…