Monthly Archives: August 2021

Earlier this morning I was sitting in the Fantastic Cafe across the street sipping hot chocolate and waiting for the library to open. As usual, it had on the oldies station KEARTH on the radio. Three times in the 90 … Continue reading →

COLLEGE FOOTBALLMy beloved Bruins are up 31-3 at the half vs Hawaii’s Rainbow Warriors! I’m confident this will be a much better season than the last several. They’ve been doing it on the ground, though. This is fine except Dorian … Continue reading →

Corporate Dems. I detest them with every ounce of my soul. Sadly, we have some here in our divine blue state, California. They are the biggest obstacles to progress outside the South, in my view.  Harken back to the early … Continue reading →

Hot diggity dog! That’s what our old Crew quarterback, Coy Hall, would have said after the LA City Council voted 11-0 to support AB 1400, a California single-payer bill that will come up in the Assembly early next year. This gives … Continue reading →

After seeing a host of debate–and GOP pseudo-outrage–in the House I flipped over to the Senate and found an interview with author John Wasik, his most recent work being Lincolnomics.  Unbeknownst to me, Lincoln was into building infrastructure, both during his … Continue reading →

I’m getting started on a piece about the history of labor’s enemies starting at the beginning of the last century. Here is what I’ve come up with so far in chronological order: IVY LEE–Created skeletal version of public relations as we know … Continue reading →

To:you + 1 more Details Lately I haven’t come across many of Ellen Brown’s pieces on the sites I normally visit. Yesterday, however, I came across a jewel in Amass–“How America Went From Mom-And-Pop Capitalism To Techno-Feudalism”. Brown gives a history of our economic system … Continue reading →

QUIZ 1–20,000 points, rebounds, women. 2–Name of Anaheim’s team in American Basketball Association. 3–Name of Southern California’s team in World Football League (mid-70s). 4–MLB’s first commissioner. 5–Detroit Lion defensive tackle who went on to star in TV series “Webster”. 6–Tommie … Continue reading →

ubject: Post for 8/20/21 High atop my list of curiosities is, why exactly did the US enter WWI/The Great War? Answers are few and far between. Once in a while somebody will say the torpedoing of the Lusitania though that happened in … Continue reading →

ubject: Post for 8/20/21 High atop my list of curiosities is, why exactly did the US enter WWI/The Great War? Answers are few and far between. Once in a while somebody will say the torpedoing of the Lusitania though that happened in … Continue reading →