A Delusion of Permanence
August 4, 2011One of the most-profound problems of humankind is the inability to see no tomorrow — or at least a tomorrow so unlike today. Life continues burns in the soul. Not so fast there, Sherlock. Humanity…
Tag Archives: Finance
Horrifying CWM — ‘The calls are coming from inside the House’
August 3, 2011One standing cliche of horror movies is the old trope of the menaced babysitter being scared out of her most-beautiful wits by a killer via telephone calls, which as turns out, are being made “from…
Ceiling Wax
August 1, 2011Despite that most-heralded, most-joyous news from President Obama last night on a debt ceiling compromise deal, US peoples shouldn’t be so happy, in fact, they should have an attack of great financial fright. Obama helped…
USA — RIP
July 31, 2011“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Illustration found here). Early Sunday and deep, wet fog here on California’s north…
Truss the Trust
July 29, 2011As the financial clock ticks away on this Friday morn, the political platoons playing pitter-pat in DC and losing the hope of US peoples in our current form of government — if you want to…
Recession Depression
July 27, 2011One small glance at just about everything around us creates an Amy-Winehouse-induced sense of the blues, even while living in supposedly the greatest country on earth. As Miss Amy reveals, wealth, fame and all the…
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…
Bad Boomerang Effect
July 25, 2011There’s an absolute truism in the saying, ‘What Comes Around, Goes Around,” albeit for the vast amount time, we never see or feel this effect — what you do today will show up tomorrow. Open…
Peak Oil — Surrealistic Sleepwalking Into Disaster
July 24, 2011Greased-nuts-and-bolts and impractical machinery — reality’s pixilated dream of an era coming quickly to an end. Peak oil appears to the naked eye less chaotic than climate change — a not-so-violent soft and gradual approach…
Famine and the US War Machine
July 22, 2011(Illustration found here). Dawn is still about 90 minutes away here on California’s northern coastline, and a thick Pacific fog compels this little corner of a world-gone-utterly bonkers to remain quiet and still. And bonkers…