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…
Category Archives: Economy
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…
‘Bizarre, and Cruel’
January 9, 2019(Illustration: Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Old Man in Sorrow (On the Threshold of Eternity)‘ found here). Worse than vile, or just an asshole motherfucker — the T-Rump tweeted this morning: Billions of dollars are sent to…
Weathering the Climate
December 9, 2018(Illustration: Artwork from the UN’s International Children’s Painting Competition, found here). Raindrops and gray — a wet-touch with color for this early-evening Sunday here on California’s north coast, the air all day clipped by some…
Climate and the Weather
December 5, 2018(Illustration found here) Bright-sunny Wednesday here on California’s north coast, a bit of chill was in the ocean breeze, though, and now near evening-dark, there’s a bite to the cool — clear usually means cold,…