Educating Nada
March 9, 2012In the education dust-up via California state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco: “It is a little embarrassing that Harvard is cheaper than the California State University,” he said in an interview. “When you price out…
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Seeping Crud
March 4, 2012In the midst of a crazed, over-gorged news cycle of late – from weather to sluts — a continuing, most-nefarious news story popped up again this week in the announcement of a subdued settlement in…
Pumped Up Bogus
March 1, 2012Yesterday I felt the first personal shock at the fuel pump when I put another $20 worth of gas in my Jeep Comanche — the gauge screaming now at $4.49 a gallon for regular. Whoa!…
Turd Privilege
February 28, 2012Wealth can indeed make one an asshole. A new study indicates when a person has more, he will take more: Those findings led to a series of experiments that revealed that people of higher socioeconomic…
State of Mind
February 24, 2012Out here on the so-called ‘Left Coast,’ life is about the same as anywhere else, but it’s CALIFORNIA. And according to a new poll, most of US peoples hate us: Only five are in negative…
Theology of Disaster
February 20, 2012Religion covers a lot of ground — there’s a church for just about every conceivable thought and emotion, and there’s always somebody willing to kill you for whatever’s sake. Rick Santorum’s smug view: “In the…
Not (A)Musing in the Morning
February 15, 2012Woke up in a sad funk this morning, worked hard for a long time to concentrate on some kind of post, but couldn’t wrap my dull brain around nothing — cold air held in shaking…
Shaking Oil
February 14, 2012First: I usually don’t post anything on oil/gas prices until I put a little fuel in my increasingly fragile Jeep, but after reports of such strange, and accelerating-upward pump prices in recent days, some investigation…
Negative Funny
February 13, 2012There’s something way-perverted here — happiness is a warm gun. Best. Parent. Ever. Tommy Jordan for president. That’s the response Jordan is getting from tens of thousands of people on the Internet after a YouTube…
Nuclear Nuts
February 12, 2012Dawn on California’s northern coast — crystal clear and cold. Inflicted with insomnia the last couple of years, I see dawn just about every day — Saturday, though, I did sleep in well past sun…