Say Good-Bye to ‘Heartburn’
June 27, 2012Amongst all the bad news pouring out of so many different sources, sometimes it’s hard to be shocked by shit, but yesterday, the announcement of the death of Nora Ephron was like a slap to the…
Tag Archives: History
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…
Tomorrow Is Closer Than Yesterday
June 24, 2012Nearly five-and-a-half years ago, Harvard energy and climate expert John Holdren, also president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, warned the planet about climate change: “We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and…
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.…
Daddy Rules
June 17, 2012(Illustration found here). A must-read for this particular day — one small snip: For we judge between the plate that is unclean and the plate that is clean, saying first, if the plate is clean,…
Happy, Happy Anniversary!
June 17, 2012Today 40 years ago, I was getting ready for a much-awaited discharge from the US Air Force and looking forward to a fall enrollment at the University of Florida — one happy, though, clueless youngster.…
Hail and the Kitty
June 15, 2012US peoples have too much on their plate nowadays to contend with such assholish-childish political bullshit like this yesterday in Cleveland: According to reports from journalists on the scene, the GOP presidential candidate’s campaign bus…
Corporate Lovefest
June 14, 2012One most-obvious example in the problem with modern life in the US came yesterday during the shameless, sham of a Senate hearing with JP Morgan honcho Jamie Dimon when gnarled nit-twit Jim DeMint slobbered: “We…
Mournful Morning
June 13, 2012Early in the morning can be a most-depressing place, at least viewing the state of the US, the world and my own self. Watching the news for insomniacs on ABC, the images float past of…