Swamp Creature
July 18, 2012Mitt Romney and George Jr. the night of Feb. 8, 2002, the opening of the Salt Lake City Olympic games: As the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s rendition of the national anthem echoed off the snow-dusted mountains,…
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Blunder Butts
July 16, 2012Even as this work week starts, the political bile never gets a day off as the presidential campaign is geared and rigged to be as mean and nasty as possible. And so way-hypocritical by the…
No Getting Over It
July 10, 2012Early this Tuesday, not quite 4 A.M. here on California’s northern coast, a morning of cool, moist fog with a day ahead of most likely the same — the sun might burn it off later…
Gilded Blowout
July 5, 2012In this the day after our Independence Day, the world looks about the same from up here on California’s northern coast, although the real word of the day yesterday (via Urban Dictionary) was “Freedom Fondle”…
Extreme Fireworks: ‘A truly peculiar moment’
July 4, 2012Here on California’s northern coast it’s cool and moist way-early this July 4, and most-likely will evolve into another sweet day — clear and warm. Nowadays, the word, ‘warm,’ however, is way-relative. Travel just a…
Gas of ‘Plunder’
July 3, 2012Although prices at us gas pumps are down and people will still hit the road this week, they won’t spend much along the way, especially for patriotic merchandise, including flags, apparel and decorations. And the…
Wet Or Not To Wet
June 26, 2012In a time when time waits for no sonofabitch, our climate is shifting right in front of our eyes and noses. Only ignorance or delusion could keep anyone from becoming fairly alarmed at the state…
Decelerating Gas
June 25, 2012While my old stomping grounds along the Florida panhandle this morning are being banged about by stalled tropical storm Debby, and other parts of the country are fighting crazed forest fires or being jolted awake…
Chicken Little, What?
June 19, 2012(Illustration found here). All things on this planet have just three parts: A beginning, a middle, and an end. No matter the subject, the material, or the biological make-up, the life of all things have…
Tipping the Bucket
June 18, 2012This morning, worldwide financial honchos are letting loose a collective sigh of relief as the Greeks swallowed their medicine as the pro-bailout New Democracy party claimed “a victory for all Europe” in Sunday’s national election.…