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…
Category Archives: Economy
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…
Up, Down and Getting Hotter
June 12, 2011On Friday, I put another $20 worth of fuel in the old Jeep, gas now down to $4.19 a gallon for regular — a dime drop in just a week and nearly a quarter in…
OPEC and Price ‘Creep’
June 9, 2011‘Danger, Will Robinson, Danger.’ After bickering like a bunch of rich, spoiled brats — which they are — members of OPEC, the scary, big oil producing cartel, busted up its meeting yesterday so out-of-line with each…
Burning the Hydrocarbons
June 5, 2011On Friday, I put another $20 worth of gas in my Jeep and at $4.29 a gallon for regular — surprise, surprise, it cost the same as a week ago — first time that’s happened…
Job One — Death of the Dream
June 3, 2011“What has two thumbs, and don’t give a crap? Bob Kelso” — Scrubs I’ve got to stop watching Scrubs on Netflicks before going to bed (up to season six) as the show’s end music chimes…
Dream and Reality
May 19, 2011US peoples are a resilient breed. The great American Dream still lives, but only within a nightmare of sleepless fantasy. James Truslow Adams coined the phrase, American Dream, in his 1931 book, The Epic of…