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First Posted 04-Sep-2015 Some years ago I told my buddy James Rustler about a late night run to Sacramento from Berkeley while I was a member of Taxi Unlimited. The ride itself was uneventful, the best kind as a cab driver. My fare wasn’t very talkative. All I could getContinue Reading

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First Posted 19-Sep-2015 A couple of things, perhaps related. This week (19-Sep-2015) I was able to transfer to my savings the last payment toward an initial emergency fund. I have mixed feelings about this. I’m happy it’s there. I’m also bedeviled by a long list of minionous desires that cackleContinue Reading

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FUB Score You The Urban Dictionary defines “fubbing” in a much nastier way than my definition following. Go look it up if you don’t know. I defined a FUB as something one spends that gathers the ire of someone aware of the expenditure. It’s an ancronym that stands for F**kContinue Reading

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I need a break from yelling about the troubles of the world. For all our utopian urges, our itch to turn it all into glass and start over, our seasonal flip from overtly, insanely socialist to just a little socialist, troubles seem to hang around. I’m weary of the goodContinue Reading

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First Posted 24-Sept-2015 Our relationship to authority figures is symbiotic. They project a personality and we subliminally reflect it back in the way we behave. It’s not always overt. Sometimes it’s a subtle vibe, a mood that echoes some aspect of the personality of our authority figures. There is theContinue Reading

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I’m having flashbacks. I have this uncontrollable itch to post something obvious to most. But I must so for those of my readership for whom the following is not news, go back to cat videos on YouTube, or maybe rense.com or Charlie Hebdo. I’m seated across the table from a formerContinue Reading

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First Posted 02-Nov-2015 Melissa Harris-Perry, a professor at Wake Forest University and host of her own Sunday Morning news show on MSNBC lecturing Paul Ryan on hard work. Melissa. You can’t be serious. I and Paul Ryan, according to you, didn’t become successful because of hard work. I didn’t build thisContinue Reading

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Words made the world. Oh shut up. I went to public school. I learned all about the Big Bang Theory. I’ve been paying attention to the news most of my life. Hawking’s Black Holes, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, String Theory, all words describing the way all this began. “In theContinue Reading

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I took a break from scrubbing the carpet in my living room to type this. Alien puke smells worse than human puke. Robert, who on a whim decides s/he’s Roberta, is asleep in his (?her?) S-10 pickup at the curb outside my house. I have a hard time telling theContinue Reading