Category Archives: america

Cowboy Rules 101

May 27, 2014 – 9:15 am

Sent by the ever-tolerant Big Al in Pattaya. He’s my hero. A father/X-fighter. 1. Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot. 2. Turn your cap right, your head ain’t crooked. 3. Let’s get this straight: it’s called a ‘gravel road.’ I drive a pickup truck because I want to. No matter how slow […]

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Retort to Cowboy Rules 101

May 27, 2014 – 9:14 am

Life takes all types, but I respect the customs of faraway cultures. We share some of the same traditions. I wear my trousers high. Pants are your bikini briefs. My cap is curved and the logos honor my hometown teams. Nothing else. No truck or lube or fishing references. I drive fully-insured rented cars in […]

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Burning California

May 20, 2014 – 10:27 am

Throughout the 20th Century California symbolized paradise to most Americans and millions of people from the rust Belt and Deep South and Dust Bowl deserted their hometowns to populate the Pacific state. Towns became cities and cities spread into the mountains as well as up the coast with a foreseeable cost. Gone are the Los […]

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Big Boys Don’t Cry

October 18, 2013 – 8:40 pm

The GOP revisionists collapsed in the face of the federal budget default. Ted Cruz vowed to fight Obamacare to the last breath of his body much as Charlton Heston had sworn to uphold the right to carry a firearm into the grave. John Boehner survived the crisis to continue as the party whip, even though […]

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No Government. No Taxes

October 1, 2013 – 9:57 pm

Spend your money on fun. foto by gwen o’neill

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