Doo-do-do-do, feeling Gloomy

The state of the world is never far from my mind, not because I, personally, can do a whole lot about it, but because, well, it sucks eggs a lot of times. I ran across an excellent comment at The Oil Drum the other day, and asked Joe if I could quote him. If you […]

Tropical things

We went to New Orleans twice during our trip (going and coming back) and, well, let’s just say there’s work to be done. I had not visited in about four years, and what I saw was basically a shell of it’s former self. Lots of buildings that were still boarded up, some that were demolished, […]

Inconceivable!

No, not that. Not the Princess Bride, or the TV show that I never saw but I heard was cancelled already. I was watching CNN (or maybe it was NBC, or CBS, they all do it) and they had some poor person standing out in front of a camera talking about the hurricane that was […]