(All-electric Tesla S sedan. Slick car for only $105,000. Photo NY Times).   I am at an intersection this morning, metaphorically, anyway, and in keeping with that line of thought, am hobbling across it on my mental crutches and trying to deal with a minor case of gas.   It took a placid day yesterday […]

I am sure there is something to be outraged about this morning. I can’t rev up the energy to get too upset about the coming increase in the rate of interest charge to Pell Loans. I listened to some earnest pundits talking about it. The President made it a big deal, like the Bad Congress […]

(Amazon.com’s version of the Showermatic Support System, a revolutionary support system for stinky shut-ins. Photo Amazon.) The Taliban is having a great day, if you have not heard. They hit a lakeside resort yesterday and murdered around fourteen people- guests and security people- and there is something else in the Kabul metro area that has […]

(I am not sure, but since I have been gone, Jim may have entered the witness protection program. All photos Socotra.) Ah, the longest day of the year! Wait, before Old Jim beats me up for a deplorable for lack of precision, it is actually the day with the most sunlight of the year. The […]

“Rio+20 will be one of the most important global meetings on sustainable development in our time.” – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Mubarak? Not quite rest in peace time for the old man as I go to press, but close enough. I guess that is to be expected when a life-time job and a nation is […]

It feels out of control this morning. Not that it ever was in control, mind you. I thought maybe I would be feeling a certain buoyancy with the funerals and the estate crap in the rear view, but instead, I have a curious sense of emptiness and dead air. I would not have expected it. […]

 (Eby Granite Works did us proud. The new stone is done by computer etching. To match the other stones would have taken a stone carver four days work. The footing is nice and will last as long as the little town of Shippensburg does. Photo Socotra.)   It beyond weird here this morning. It is […]

(Oliver Hazard Perry shifts his colors from USS Lawrence to Niagra, War of 1812. Photo Naval Academy.)   Well, you could go watch Greece melt down this weekend, or ignore the lies, half-truths and general crap spewing from the Continent and the Campaign and do something fun.   My Guardian Ensign has agreed to drive […]

I had two martinis at around what used to be the cocktail hour and drifted off to sleep for an hour or two on top of the covers after the big trial run to Move the Bluesmobile and navigate on the crutches around Big Pink. This convalescence is screwing up my drinking. It is too […]

(George Stephanopoulos on set. Photo ABC News. I think that used to be a network.) I have to move the car today. The leaflet from the box told me in no uncertain terms that the re-paving people are coming to do half the parking lot, and if the Bluesmobile is still parked proudly near the […]