Pass the Beer Nuts… Or How I Learned to Love the End

The Mayan People as Example Our globalized interconnected world was sold as a cure all for every kind of inefficiency of free enterprise. Free markets were going to spread democracy to every corner of the earth. Something went wrong. I know it, you know it; we all know that something is wrong. We are simply […]

The Kilted Salvation

It Was Not A Surprise The Scottish National Party swept this last week’s elections. They built majorities by convincing Labour Party voters to switch allegiances to the Scottish National Party. I had followed last year’s vote in Scotland to decide whether they would secede from Great Britain. The initiative failed but the Scottish National […]

Hat Snatching Owl’s and Brawling Burro Truths…

The owl soared across the street to the limb of a cottonwood. The animal perched, balancing on one foot, with Mr. Garrett Harwood’s hat clasped and dangling in her clutches in the other. Hot Spring Honeymoon Owl attacks joggers and steals their hats… Headline from The Guardian, Reuters in Portland, Oregon I concocted a confrontation […]

Bachelorhood as Infrastructure

To Have Anything You Must Give Her Everything “You peeling down into your French lingerie and your slick high-heeled cowgirl boots, I swear on a stack of Gideon’s, you don’t want a fair fight… Trying to ensnare me in my own weaknesses…. I know your kind; you’ll have nothing and nobody to blame but […]

The Boar’s Big Oil Agony

We are ungovernable. We can’t do it. In other batshit crazy news you might have noticed that the decline of crime is being correlated to a decline in airborne lead levels. Take the lead out of gasoline and just like that you get a 70% decrease in violent crime. Who knew? The king is not […]

Stupid, Dumb and Dunderheaded

“Your wallets gone, passport is missing and you’ve just received a note from the consulate. There is nothing they can do. You will have to live with your new tattoo and the sex change operation.” Send in the clowns… they’re already here… Working today on the stupid… I try not to do stupid, but […]

The Great Dictator’s Curtain Call

The Great Dictator Revisited… Can you say climate denial or how to protect your friends in high places.

The Well Paid Truth Tellers…

They are paid to this work and now the peasants are in revolt.

Scotland is ready to Rumble

The Good People of the Catalan We begin today with where I ended yesterday. The failure of the business and political leaders of the major economies of the world to grasp how far out of touch they are with the citizens of their countries. Yes they may be capable of ramming a new trade deal […]

Saving Up Solstice for Aches and Pains

You Just Can’t Make A Place Like This Up… Today is the summer solstice. On Wednesday we depart northbound. Our track will be to Lakeview, Oregon. From this frontier on the California border we will continue into vast Great Basin regions of Eastern Oregon. Our ultimate destination is the 30th Edition of The Edmonton International […]