kickin’ the can
November 15, 2012Clear and chilly this morning here on California’s northern coast, stars twinkling in the sky and sounds distinct from seemingly far, far away. Another day, another week as we grind onward toward the weekend. Best…
Category Archives: Economy
Fatal Tragedy
November 3, 2012One of the great — and most-horrifying — paradoxes of our time is the destructive cycle of humanity’s obsession with oil and its by-products, way-most-notably, gasoline. A vivid illustration of this phenomenon is the picture…
Monday Ugly
October 8, 2012Beginning of the week once again and the plight of life up here on California’s northern coast is a bit overcast and a bit of chill the f*ck out. Last week was seemingly too dramatic…
Life Defaulted
September 9, 2012One regret I’ve had (among a whopper list) is that I’ve never been a homeowner, though, for many years I was eligible for a VA loan via the GI Bill. Nowadays owning a home can…
Fire in the hold!
August 7, 2012Quiet and still this wee-early Tuesday morning on California’s northern coast, creating a false sense of all is well with the world. When it ain’t. Of course, the entire world is overwhelmed by the curious…
Wanker, Banker, Weasel
July 26, 2012One of the extreme-first indications President Obama was more creative-mouth than actual action was the announced appointment in December 2008 of those two knuckle-headed financial assholes Timmy Geithner and Larry Summers to his incoming administration…
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”…
‘A peculiarly Western phenomenon’
June 30, 2012As a single parent who raised five kids on a below-par income, there was never wasted food amongst us, and after each meal, not much left-over either. And shit never went bad in the fridge,…
Decelerating Gas
June 25, 2012While my old stomping grounds along the Florida panhandle this morning are being banged about by stalled tropical storm Debby, and other parts of the country are fighting crazed forest fires or being jolted awake…
Oily Complexion
June 16, 2012In thinking of the past, more of the structured remembrance seems in reality an illusion — all the hype of those glorious, hey-days of the 1950s and 60s, when energy was so obviously abundant all-electric…