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.…
Tag Archives: History
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…
Odd Tuesday
June 12, 2012Deep fog covering the northern California landscape this early Tuesday morning, but it does feel a bit warm, keeping hopefully the streak of great weather up here going — the fog always burns off early…
Monday Once Again
June 11, 2012Monday again and after not posting any freakin’ thing over the weekend, the catch-up is on the bun, or words to that effect. And the world continues to twirl away toward oblivion without so much…
The Sweet Crude Swallow
June 7, 2012Prices at the gas pump have taken the way-backseat in the old news cycle lately, but WTF — in the face of actual face eating, Chinese body parts mailed to all over by a Canadian…
Candle Light
June 3, 2012History is relative. And in this 24/7 nowadays it’s way-hard to imagine any kind of life without electrical power. Hence, last week Leon Panetta spelled it out: “Well, there’s no question that if a cyber…
To-morrow, To-morrow…
June 3, 2012Obvious the strange, though, deviations are not that unfamiliar. In the wake last week of some nefarious-images of face eating and kitten strangling, the entire human system appears to be heading off into a bad…
400 PPM — RIP
June 1, 2012Celestial crazy continued yesterday in New York City with “Manhattanhenge†— the rare, though not unheard of phenomenon when a setting sun perfectly aligns itself with the Manhattan street grid and invoked native daftness: “Taxi…