Dangerous Time: ‘Losing My Civilians’
May 10, 2020Ghastly but accurate (via Raw Story): Ending caught me by surprise — Joe? The video is from the UK — it works, though. And I spied the clip yesterday, but this morning I came across…
Category Archives: Economy
Despite Death of ‘Some People,’ T-Rump Taunts ‘But We Have to Get Our Country Open’
May 5, 2020Bat-shit crazy times, huh? And this from the LA Times this morning: Scientists have identified a new strain of the coronavirus that has become dominant worldwide and appears to be more contagious than the versions…
T-Rump Says Everything is Going to be Great: ‘I feel it’
April 30, 2020Sunny and breezy a few minutes past the Thursday noon hour here in California’s Central Valley. Warm, but not bad and nowhere like the last couple of days, the cool wind helps, I’m sure —…
Losing Postal
March 24, 2020Edging closer to the precipice, yesterday I noted my trip of the post office, but then didn’t really appreciate the pickle postal workers are currently undergoing, working in a most essential of services and getting…
Newsprint Eulogy
February 14, 2020Another sad event in the shifting world of good journalism. (Illustration found here). News gathering has always been a hard row-to-hoe, even in the best of times. Technology switched the goal posts all around, which…
Not Only War, But Creating a Nation Fat-Asses, Too — T-Rump Sucks!
January 4, 2020Asshole T-Rump is even worse than we already know — today’s PsyPost: New research suggests that President Donald Trump’s affinity for fast food can influence the public’s dietary intentions, and potentially contribute to a greater…
A Dozen Years Later — Meltdown ‘Most-Rapid and Domino-Like’
June 21, 2019Tomorrow will be the 12th anniversary of the Great Recession’s fiscal origin moment: ‘On June 22, 2007, Bear Stearns pledged a collateralized loan of up to $3.2 billion to “bail out” one of its funds,…
Trump and the Deutsche Bank: A Tale of Bullshit
March 18, 2019(Illustration: Salvador Dali’s ‘Hell Canto 2: Giants,’ found here). Clear and sunny Monday evening here on California’s north coast — another gorgeous day, though some coastal fog was encountered earlier this afternoon out on Manila’s beaches…
And…Cut to Kamala
January 29, 2019(Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Agonizing Horse,’ found here). A gray-white overcast and chilled sky this late Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast, the dark approaches. Fairly-deep fog this morning when I walked the dogs (or the…
Shut-Down ‘Embarrassing for the Country’
January 11, 2019(Illustration above: M.C Escher’s ‘Scholastica,’ found here). As the work-week comes to a close this Friday evening, the natural momentum of our terrifying times-of-history doesn’t have weekends off, so the ruthless grind of weird shit…