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…
Category Archives: Economy
Jobs in an ‘Acute Talent Shortage’
July 26, 2011As John ‘The Boner’ Boehner blubbered last night about not “going mano-a-mano with the President of the United States” after trying to refute President Obama on the debt ceiling shit-storm, the mass of US peoples…
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…
Famine and the US War Machine
July 22, 2011(Illustration found here). Dawn is still about 90 minutes away here on California’s northern coastline, and a thick Pacific fog compels this little corner of a world-gone-utterly bonkers to remain quiet and still. And bonkers…
Calling the Corpulent
July 15, 2011Even as the US economy tanks, there’s still 300 million mouths wide open for a burger and fries — how fat has this country’s people’s become — does fear about the future cause one to…
Unemployment As Job One
July 11, 2011“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.†— Oscar Wilde (Illustration found here). If the horrible US jobs report on Friday was anywhere near shocking for you, as Paul…
The Obama Illusion
July 8, 2011One of the way-great disappointments in US history is Barack Obama, growing from ‘yes, we can’ to ‘no way’ in the space of a finger snap. Most likely, a great reason for the depressed anxiety…
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,…
Gas and Other Forms of Indigestion
June 20, 2011On Friday, I put another $20 worth of fuel in the old Jeep and the pump price was the same as the last time — $4.19 a gallon for regular. Whop-pee! Isn’t that something? The…