Feminine Labor
May 30, 2013High overcast and way-quiet this early Thursday on California’s northern coast, with the silence so compelling, the noise from the Pacific only a mile or so away, can barely be heard above all the hush-hush.…
Category Archives: Jobs
Mad it’s monday
May 6, 2013Despite all that I could do, it’s Monday again — the weekend ends way-too quick. Clear skies, however, and quiet here on California’s north coast. And we start another plunge into what’s called ‘making a…
Boomer Go Boom!
January 29, 2013Once again, cloudy and drizzling rain this Tuesday morning up here along California’s northern coast — quiet and easy. Life all over ain’t so as scouring the news reveals it’s the Same Old Shit causing…
College Degree — ‘An Empty Cliff’
April 23, 2012Last week, a regular customer and I got into a short discussion during check-out on the subject of college debt — she told me she was having trouble paying off just $4,000 in loan obligations.…
Paper Cut
December 4, 2011Print journalism has lost another body part, this one right close to home. Next Thursday will end the 110-year-old life of the Humboldt Beacon, a weekly covering mostly the southern part of the county, a…
Old Money vs NO New Money
November 8, 2011(Illustration found here). No wonder young people are more than pissed — the future looks like shit. And greed is greed. From CNN: According to analysis by the Pew Research Center released Monday, younger Americans…
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…
Dancing on the Ceiling, Prancing in the Corner
July 17, 2011(Illustration found here). Upchucking the ‘toon above: The good news is not gay — it’s pretty-much a hard-packed ass, not happy at all. In reality, there’s no good news. As Sunday morning dawns, the news…
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…