When Unemployment Makes You Goofy
These are tough times. These are tough times globally, but for the United States this is also no day a the beach. These are tough times economically, what with personal wealth devastated by the real estate market, the depletion of pensions funds. Money is scarce and credit is tight.
What money there is in the banks [...]
Burying a Generation in Student Debt
The good news is that a student will graduate from college. With a college degree, a younger person has a greater capability of shaping his career and life in general. The student has the opportunity to make more money. Advancements come easier when you have a college degree. Or so the story goes.
The fact is [...]
Nature’s Way of Sorting Out the Environment
I was reading a recent article in the Los Angeles Times about how the cold spell in Florida is killing many of the nonnative animal life. Burmese Pythons and African Rock Pythons are buying the farm on a major scale. Iguanas are falling dead from trees. Nonnative fish are dying by the thousands. The Mayan [...]
Content of Author Gordon Basichis Interview with Nanci Arvizu
Last week, I announced Gordon Basichis to be Interviewed on Nanci Arvizu’s Page Readers. This was the interview about my new book, “The Guys Who Spied for China,” a roman a clef about uncovering Chinese Spy Networks in California and the United States.
The book has been receiving good reviews, with critics calling in quirky and [...]
Hang High the White Collar Criminals
People are pissed off. This in itself is no real news as the public disgust with the news media, politicians and Wall Street has been on the increase every year. But now they are really pissed off. People are so angry that not even their Prozac and Zoloft, and the other mood enhancers, can fend [...]