Tender Mercies for Billionaires

Now we Darwinian types do prefer our coffee black and we’ll take our capitalism as wild and predatory as nature itself. Social stabilizers, rules to the road, well regulated markets are for softies. The era of abundance is over. I never got a crack at enjoying the thing while it was around. So what we […]

Liberace as Lightening Rod

I think it is obvious. Some things are transparent. You can see right through them. Some people behave in such a manner and some places are like that too. What you see is what you get. In Washington DC there exist walls and fences. There is the secret service. There are barricades to stop vehicles […]

A Day at the Beach

Madness it seems is not always confined to a mere individual. The whole lot of us can be convinced to run right off a cliff. We seem to be capable of collective irrationality. If I didn’t have an understanding of yoga, the game of paintball, or solitaire I might look with virgin like eyes and […]

To Hell in a Handbasket By Do-Gooders

How mean and nasty are you? I’m well shy of criminal mean and nasty but then I’m not talking about crime, I mean more generally about disposition, the essential direction of your personality. I’ve seen perfectly rational individuals once they are inside the construct of a relationship find that they have a pretty short fuse. […]

The World Can Just Go to Hell, I’m Going to Nevada

Nevada is a great place for land speed record attempts. They have hot springs everywhere. Sagebrush loves it in Nevada. It is a magnet for a particular kind of person. Now every kind of person comes to Nevada. They all arrive differentiated. Each kind; there are men who come, and there are women. I […]

Forces to Reckon With

I think I am civilized. Finally I have crossed some threshold and arrived. I never much enjoyed being barbaric. My brutish phase has ended. In my twenties I had a temper. I could get so excited I couldn’t remember what I had become so excited about. Regardless I could stay mad for hours even if […]

Bury Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction at Yucca Mountain

I’ve been reading up on Caliente,Nevada. Sagebrush is located there. TheGreat Basin Highway runs through town. It seems to have some relationship with geothermal waters that are common to this region. There are ranches and mines in this area. It was downwind of the Atomic Test Site. If Yucca Mountain ever came to pass it […]

Into the Belly of the Consumer Electronics Shows Beast

Here is the cauldron of capitalism. Here are the electronic innovators shining shrine to invention on a hill. In this case it is a convention center imagined as the biggest, most stupendous, most colossal sized exhibit hall man can imagine. Before you get excited be prepared to become exhausted. There are thousands upon thousands of […]

Award Winning Award Ribbons

Jane Cottonwood started lifting spirits as a coffee shop waitress in Beatty, Nevada. While attending horse shows with her little barrel racing daughters Jane came to find out there was a real shortage of award ribbons for those little winners she was raising. ‘Janey’ came to know how the world worked by living on Highway […]

When in Doubt and All Else Fails

Okay, here in San Francisco the weather is doing its impression of paradise. I looked into my heart and my heart said go, just go, and so indeed going is where I will go…