Tuesday to Tango
July 19, 2011Pure crazy is gaining momentum by the hour, even as the entire structure of mankind’s latest reincarnation of civilization is breaking apart like an Arkansas outhouse hit by an F5 tornado. And the crazies who…
Tag Archives: Politics
Unemployment As Job One
July 11, 2011“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.†— Oscar Wilde (Illustration found here). If the horrible US jobs report on Friday was anywhere near shocking for you, as Paul…
Morning Cycles
June 23, 2011(Illustration of Edward Hopper‘s ‘Morning Sun‘ found here). Here we are on a wee-early Thursday morning trying to slop through the night’s news and nothing other than the usual war, pestilence and grief, with much…
‘Give Peace a Chance’ — Discredit the Informed
June 17, 2011A lot of the horrific illegal mindset of modern times when it comes to dissent and contrary views to US government has its inglorious roots in the bowels of Dick Nixon. From the New York Times…
Not Shocked at the Nasty
May 26, 2011One of the very, very few people who have emerged on the national scene the last couple of years with not only intelligence and competence, but also more than a semblance of compassion, is financial…
Earthquakes and Climate
April 14, 2011In light of the ongoing horror in Japan — an earthquake induced nuclear meltdown — there’s been a dust-up down in my old stomping ground of central California as PG&E attempts to renew the license…
Pump-Up the Bullet
April 10, 2011Yeah… Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. — Benjamin Franklin (Illustration…
‘O’ Not Again
April 4, 2011In another attempt to pinch-out a phrase for the times, President Obama launched his 2012 re-election bid this morning with a stirring, “It begins with us,” planted on his official site at barackobama.com. I knew…
Revolt of the Bottom-Dwellers
April 2, 2011Ordinary US peoples are financial slaves to the rich: In terms of types of financial wealth, the top one percent of households have 38.3% of all privately held stock, 60.6% of financial securities, and 62.4%…
Egypt’s Difficulty
January 31, 2011Egypt is a way-ancient land now exploding via extreme-modern media, but a good reason for all the unrest is as old as time — food. And a near-twist-a-flex attitude in the US, where prices are…