FROM FOG-CITY…TO…COUGAR-VILLE-BY-THE-BAY… (…as a mountain lion comes to call) The streets of San Francisco have long teemed with “wildlife” of the human species (much of it of no great merit), but what many don’t realize is that it also harbors
WHETHER THEY CALL IT FAUX OR MOCK… (…it still won’t be…meat) Sooner or later it was bound to happen. And it all came about because of that somewhat cannibalistic Orwellian flavored film…Soylent Green…wherein humans who had reach a certain predetermined
EVENTS OF INDISCRIMINATE MASS MURDER IN AMERICA… (…are much like poisonous toadstools of violence to be found in any society’s matrix) The latest mass killing in a small Texas community’s church is a clear indication that there is something drastically
IT’S OFF TO ASIA WE GO… (hi…ho…hi…ho…to dealie-oh…it’s off to Asia we go…) Despite growing rumbles of more troubles to come from the investigation into his campaign’s connections with Russia’s meddling in the 2016 elections, the President is off on
TANT PIS TANT MIEUX… (presumably…so does the President’s dog…we hope) Years ago, a great cartoonist named Peter Arno published a book titled – Fractured French –A hilarious spoof using zany English translations of the French captions accompanying its cartoons. A
THOSE INCREASING STORM SURGES OF RAMPANT NATIONALISM… (…are cultural backlashes against changes within existing conglomerate unity) The post WWII Franco/German entente (pragmatic if not cordiale) hammered out between President Schumann of France and Chancellor Adenauer of West Germany, laid down
CALIFORNIA IS STILL BURNING… (…and going up in smoke) California is still burning…and going up in smoke, well, most of the northern part of the state that is. Every year the same cycle seems to repeat itself…rain and mudslides in
PUERTO RICO… (still being treated with disdain and contempt as a step-child nuisance) Ever since we grabbed it from Spain back in the 1890’s, we’ve never figured out what to do with it, or how to really make it a
HUGH HEFFNER… (the apostle of a hedonistic revolution) Hugh Heffner quietly passed away last week. He was 91. Like many of us he was born between the “Lost Generation” from WWI and the “Greatest Generation” of WWII, thus missing out
WHAT HAPPENED IN VEGAS… (should never have happened in Vegas) This latest killing rampage by a lone gunman, shooting down from a top story of one of the major casinos in Las Vegas, to slaughter some 58 people and wound