Monthly Archives: August 2011

I don’t pretend to be some kind of Cornstitushionul Skolar, but when the occupants of the highest offices in the land scoff at the law and flout it at every turn, WHY THE HELL SHOULD ANYONE OBEY THE LAW? (Kindly pardon mah French.) Continue reading →

Now, a lot of people — especially economists and political pundits — like to opine that our economy is playing possum. Or that we are “broke,” and therefore can’t put out marsh fires (like the one in Louisiana choking New Orleans with smoke, today). No: we have the human capital. We just aren’t distributing it correctly. Continue reading →

The “dismal science” is economics; Monty Python were a British TV comedy troupe. And the analogy is exact. Continue reading →

We have grown so accustomed to the ravings of the objectively-challenged idio(t)logues over their ill-defined and even-less-thought-out idio(t)logy that we merely shine them on, even as their brain-dead, convulsing “readers” go into conniption fits as much from habit as choice. You can’t live your whole life throwing tantrums. Continue reading →

She had taken straight off out a balcony on the second floor in downtown Whittier — which was celebrating its Centennial — and that drop to the pavement killed her. She had gone rabbit when the quake hit, and I would imagine that the moment before, nobody in that office would have expected HER to be the one to panic. The building itself survived, as did those who stayed inside. Continue reading →

Bravo, USGS. And, take a moment to thank your Government and your Tax Dollars in action: think of the chaos, fear, panic, etc. if there were no USGS, and nobody knew for hours or days afterwards how widespread and what magnitude quake it was. (And ditto the Weather service — from which ALL weather channels and reports get their information, charts, photos, etc … for FREE.) Continue reading →

But first, I need to give you the thesis that I’m going to be carrying around the USA this summer: We are at a crucial crossroads of history. We are about to lose home rule (via anonymous and onymous outside “contributions”); we are about to lose self-governance (ditto) and we are about to lose a free press in favor of a corporate P.R. press (ditto) that serve unseen plutocratic masters who care not a damn about us. Continue reading →

The famouser “Mitten,” Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park Continue reading →

That is called “cognitive dissonance.” And, while we may aptly characterize most of the political and advertising Machaivellis who ladle this swill into our brains, non-stop from a pre-verbal age as “cognitive dissidents” who are against cognition in all but the most extreme emergencies, that is not our point, and we move on. Continue reading →

There are two equally culpable parties here: the rise of the paid political professional as the determinant factor in campaigns, and the utter superficiality of a 24-hour-news-cycle driven media who are unwilling or mentally unable to comprehend the important issues of the day. Continue reading →