Monthly Archives: August 2017

Thunder And Rain Over Maine

August 4, 2017 – 9:48 am

Maine was my home state from 1953 to 1960. My family’s house was in Falmouth Foresides. Portland was across the harbor. The coast had been civilized for centuries. First by the Indians and then the French and English. Rivers ran inland to the mountains. A savage wilderness. Few roads. Only weather grew in that land. […]

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Dow Jones 22,000

August 3, 2017 – 10:04 pm

The Dow Jones scrapped past the 22,000 mark. Q3 from Apple earning reports fueled the bump. The computer megalith has cached over $50 billion of profits overseas. Money doing nothing like stoners trapped in a Special K K-Hole. I am not impressed by the riches of nations disappearing into the wealth cloud never to land […]

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WILD IN THE STREETS

August 2, 2017 – 2:41 am

1968 was a time of revolution in Paris, Mexico, Chicago, Saigon, Prague. Most were put down bloodily by the forces of repression. The young attacking the young at the behest of the over-30s. A young writer Robert Thom wrote a short story WILD IN THE STREETS and Hollywood capitalized on its call to trust no […]

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