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…
On 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…
The very most-wonderful dog I ever had was a Springer Spaniel (very similar to the one shown at left) named Bogie, one sweet animal given to me as a puppy. He was a pure breed,…
On 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…
Here in the wee hours of the last day of May 2011, the world keeps spinning, the rain keeps coming down (along the northern California coast) and bad shit keeps filling CBS’ early-morning-looped-news program, ‘Up…
Yesterday, I put $20 worth of gas in my Jeep, this time at $4.29 a gallon for regular, a shocking $.15 drop in price in just more than two weeks, the last time I put…
Air and earth has quickly become a deadly pain in the ass. Images from TV the last few days, and the last couple of months to be more precise, has reached a seemingly movie-as-real-life scenario…
As Joplin, Missouri, gleans through horrific wreckage, the rest of us must beware of a new life style. From Reuters: Heavy rains, deep snowfalls, monster floods and killing droughts are signs of a “new normal”…
As someone growing up in the US deep south, anytime there’s any mention of tornadoes gives me a deep, frightfully-shocked desire to run, run far away — even just reading about crazed funnel-clouds gives me…
What’s love got to do with it, do with it? And what’s up with all these high-profile people doing the nasty in a most-outrageous and public way, turning the manly phrase, ‘gettin’ a little,’ into…
The conscious vs the unconscious: WASHINGTON—According to a report released this week by the Center for Global Development, climate change, the popular mid-2000s issue that raised awareness of the fact that the earth’s continuous rise…