Fecund Stench's blog

There are currently fifteen of us. One I know. We had a few beers at Natty's after last October's ConvergeSouth. He's a first rate thinker and journalist, so I'm encouraged.

Today's N&R reports that NC revenues are off $71 million for the ending fiscal year.

Another story relates how due to high gas prices and credit card fees, a Roseboro store will stop pumping gas. I heard on the radio that vendors are demanding cash for the same reason.

It is only a matter of time before we begin to see stories about outlying areas losing distribution of beer and cigarettes. God forbid they should stop delivering groceries.

The CFTC gets the Brits to impose trading regs on Atlanta-based ICE Futures Europe. On the very same day, Dubya acts to open ANWR, the OCS and shale oil reserves. All of this is occurring with $140 oil in the background. You couldn't have choreographed a screenplay better.

What hilarious pageantry that Bush asks Saudi Arabia to increase production and they concede, as though current oil prices were based on supply and demand. When in fact, they are based on a derivatives market practically invented by the Bush family and perfected by John McCain's economic advisor, Phil Gramm.

I wanted to exercise my right to speech by helping the voters with their selection of the GOP candidate for Governor. As you go to the polls, please remember:

Or how the neoliberal tactics of Texanomics came to North Carolina.

NC GOP candidate for governor, Fred Smith, sent us a book. Right on the top is an endorsement from Rick Perry, Governor of Texas. And he's coming to the Oriental Shrine Club in Greensboro next Tuesday. Lee Greenwood's gonna sing that song. The thirty percenters will no doubt turn out in droves.

The Wife has a lady's apparel store and we go a few times each year to Atlanta to order clothes and accessories. She always gets posh digs across the street downtown cheap on Priceline. We find good restaurants within walking distance and try to make of it a vacation. Unfortunately, she spends her time buying and I take pics. The rest of the time I try with some difficulty to stay out of trouble.

I've been having some really dark thoughts about the approaching apocalypse. Some of these thoughts are in fact so dark as to scare me. Shall I tell you one?

The first big conclusion I came to when thinking this through is that most of the men will be useless and in the way. Hell, too many are now. And when you get right down to it, they're responsible for the situation we're in, anyway.

Women are our hope. Fortunately, that includes me 'cause, by and large, I do what women tell me and don't expect that to change.

and then some. That's the way things are, here in America, the land of the duped, this Friday night. I've had a few Yuengling's and AFAYK, the Wife has absolutely no use for the inexpensive WalMart brand of Cab Sav or Pinot Grig.