Monthly Archives: January 2010

Warmth of Winter

My friends are reacting to the prolonged cold snap by discounting the research of thousands of scientists with the simplistic query. “Where’s global warming now?” My attempts to explain the ever-increasing swings in weather extremes are in vain. “But it’s cold and the planet is supposedly to be getting warm.” “There’s 6 billion people on […]

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Cutting Up Your Credit Cards

This year the US government lent hundreds of billions of dollars to shore up the failing financial institutions and the banks have rewarded the largess of the American taxpayers by hiking interest rates and dropping credit balance. Most of their customers have accepted these changes with fatal resignation, however a California lawyer has refused to […]

Happy 2010

The debate is raging in corporate headquarters around the USA whether to call 2010 ‘twenty-ten’ or ‘2 thousand ten’. The former is shorter and the latter more accurate. personally I like ‘two-O-ten’ or ‘two-K-ten’. I’ll give them a try in the upcoming weeks. Anything to be different and then there is ‘0-10’. So very James […]

Club 57 Bio

Club 57 was a great venue under a Polish Church on St. Marks Place. My persona non grata status came from deserting my hillbilly girlfriend who founded the avant-garde joint. She is still a friend, although for a long time, my name was an anathema. Here’s my bio from Club 57. Peter Nolan Smith is […]