Die Corona meets My Sharona during business as usual on the Florida beach

W.H.O.'s your daddy? Coeds play chicken on the beach, testing the dire warnings of the WHO and the CDC.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohO8eAwi_po 'confirmed case' apples to 'estimated case' oranges being used to grind the world economy to a halt. It's the ultimate test case for anyone who's paying attention. Laissez faire versus burning hair and set the … Continue reading Die Corona meets My Sharona during business as usual on the Florida beach →

KUNG FLU HUSTLE

The hell, you say? 2009: 61 million confirmed US cases of the H1N1 swine flu and 12,400 US deaths...life goes on.2020: a couple thousand confirmed cases of Corona and 40 plus deaths (most of them from a nursing home in WA) and America loses its mind... Sure, the pandemic is just beginning. It could get … Continue reading KUNG FLU HUSTLE →

THE PUZZLING NATURE OF THEIR GAME

So China is now blaming US for what they are guilty of. Hmmm. Sounds awful familiar. Could it be ... let me see ... who could it be ... let's see... could it be???? Whoda thunk it? The mocking mocker was right all along! OK, boomer. Satan ... Lucifer...Saul Alinsky. At this point, what difference … Continue reading THE PUZZLING NATURE OF THEIR GAME →

GOOD CLEAN FUN AT THE EXPENSE OF THE BUREAUCRACY: Actual minutes of a Forest Service branch meeting.

Branch meeting minutes 3-2-2020 (names changed to protect the indigent) Branch Chief King Kong Bundy presented a short video of former Arkansas Razorbacks and Notre Dame Fighting Irish football coach Lou Holtz titled: I WAS BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN MY MOUTH The gist of the video was to illustrate that while he grew … Continue reading GOOD CLEAN FUN AT THE EXPENSE OF THE BUREAUCRACY: Actual minutes of a Forest Service branch meeting. →

RUNNING SHAME chapter 7

It was one of those days in the Sunset District when the fog never completely lifted. Visibility was fair, details were hazy. Long stalks of kelp, wrenched from their moorings by an offshore storm, washed up on the sand, fouling the lines and confounding the surf perch fishermen standing wraith-like, knee-deep in the frothing breakers. … Continue reading RUNNING SHAME chapter 7 →

AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY unintended reaping of VC indignation

Dear Madam or Sir: Upon the much dreaded arrival of my sixty-fourth birthday, I ascertained that I did not want to start every current conversation about myself with the words, "I was." So I went out for twenty-eight days to rediscover America, missed opportunity, and myself ... click to continue

RUNNING SHAME: chapter 6

The old loon who’d wanted photographs of her husband’s funeral had probably called to complain. Ted pulled up to the curb and set his parking brake. There wasn’t a baseball game scheduled at the Coliseum that day and Ted couldn’t think of any other reason why Billy would call him in on his day off. … Continue reading RUNNING SHAME: chapter 6 →