Payroll Thursday
November 3, 2011Today is payday for our five employees at my liquor store and putting together the payroll is the main concern this morning — we’re a rarity as we pay weekly, not every couple of weeks…
Tag Archives: History
No Easy Fix
November 1, 2011One of the scary parts of climate change — and there’s a shitload of scary parts — is the unknown, stuff beyond what the science can reveal, or even if some particular action actually does…
Not Funny
October 31, 2011“The issue is not whether the Iraqi people will greet U.S. soldiers as their liberators, but what will they do six months after that. I find it naive and disingenuous to claim that you can…
‘Nother ‘Nam
October 30, 2011“To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. “To suggest we are on the edge of…
Party!
October 28, 2011One real scary moment for Halloween is the overcrowding mob on hand for the party — the UN claims the population of the earth will top 7 billion on Monday, embellishing a smorgasbord of dangerous…
‘Pollyanna’ Prognosis
October 27, 2011In recent history, one has learned to not trust a lot of information from any US government agency with a hidden/or not-so-hidden agenda — recent example is the State Department’s okay of the horrendous Keystone…
Freedom Flies
October 26, 2011Another anniversary this morning, and a sad day indeed for US peoples. Ten years ago today, George Jr. signed into law the infamous USA/Patriot Act, a move which revealed the end game for the great…
Yap Forum
October 24, 2011The MSM in the US has gotten worse and worse — the whole outfit wasn’t pretty to begin with and the ugly is getting worse — and CBS News should know better. A whole shitload…
Beyond Bad
October 23, 2011Another brick in the wall: In the midst of a seemingly worldwide occupation-movement, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. Reportedly, about 147 super-connected corporations — out of 43,000 studied in recent research —…
Conflict Blowback Comedy
October 21, 2011Although Moammar Gadhafi was one of the great-cruel assholes of a generation, watching him all bloody, getting slapped around by Libyan freedom fighters, makes for a disconcerting scene — this world doesn’t sugar-coat violence in…