The New Ground Zero

By David Glenn Cox

The smoke has cleared, the debris has been removed. On February 27^th 1933, the German Reichstag was burned by arson. (The event is seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. Wikipedia) Just two weeks before… Read full post »

Portland is Like Algebra
By David Glenn Cox



Portland is like Algebra, it is hard and it’s complicated and I just don’t get it. This has been a hard one for me, my luck had been changing, I’d got an ID and a cryptic letter from the state of… Read full post »

Kingfish
By David Glenn Cox

How often the name of Jesus Christ is commonly bandied about, and for a fictional or faith based character, I suppose that’s all right. I mean, well, Jesus allegedly cast the money changers out of the temple and… Read full post »

Cody the Cardboard Cowboy
By David Glenn Cox

Let’s play a game and in it, you and I are high powered executives working at a marketing firm on Madison Avenue in New York. I wear $1,200 Italian suits and I send the intern back to Starbucks, three quarters… Read full post »

How Can We Live, Without Our Lives?
By David Glenn Cox


It is the first Friday of the month, the day when the bureau of Labor Statistics releases its monthly job report. I hurried along heading for the coffee shop and as I stepped out into the crosswalk an… Read full post »

The Free Market
By David Glenn Cox

I recently walked to a grocery store; I entered from the darkness into this brightly lit arena, like a pilgrim entering Mecca. Shelves brightly decorated with bright, colorful displays of potato chips, nacho chips, Cheetos, cookies and candy, frozen… Read full post »

The past is prologue, the future is yet defined, the emergence of a Fascist police state is now clearly rising and almost impossible to argue against.  From New York City’s controversial “stop and frisk” program to this from the Atlanta Journal Const… Read full post »

No Road Back
By David Glenn Cox

It is really not so hard to be poor, the inability to purchase things or accumulate things is a relatively an easy adjustment. It is also an easy matter to adapt from a personal vehicle to public transport. The primary… Read full post »

Fear Not the Apathy
By David Glenn Cox



It is interesting to down right frightening to look at the state of American politics in this election year of our lord. We have two, count em, two wholly lackluster Presidential candidates both running in an epic spectacle of absurdities.… Read full post »

Now, You See My Fists?
By David Glenn Cox

 

It was just a simple police stop, I was walking back home from the store, penny food under my arm, when I saw him. A police cruiser parked crookedly on the side road, red and… Read full post »

The Employment Wall
By David Glenn Cox



This year 1,750,000 students will graduate from colleges within the United States. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, last year the economy created only 172,000 jobs requiring college degrees. Or since the collapse of the economy in 2008, US… Read full post »

 The Days of Warm Prosperity

By David Glenn Cox

In the days of warm prosperity, it is rather a simple matter to accept as gospel all that you are told. After all, comfort and pockets filled with cash can do much to numb the… Read full post »

Craigslist – Explained

By David Glenn Cox

I found this on Craigslist the other day, posted in the writing jobs section. I was struck by what it was saying superficially versus what is was actually trying to say. My own comments… Read full post »

Cashbook

By David Glenn Cox

Question- What are the advantages and disadvantages for a company going public?

Answer- “An initial public offering (IPO) is the first sale of stock by a company. Small companies looking to further the growth of their… Read full post »

Carroll Shelby 1923 - 2012
By David Glenn Cox

This country isn’t going to be as cool as it used to be, Carroll Shelby has passed away from us. Carroll was what it was like to be an American back in those halcyon days of the mid-twentieth… Read full post »

Walking
By David Glenn Cox

I asked myself the other day, just what would I do for a job. That little demon appeared on my shoulder answering, “Why I’d star in a porn film, if my credentials would stand up.” I know, everyone is talking… Read full post »

By David Glenn Cox

I’ve gotten into the habit each month of reading the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner’s statement, on the employment situation. This month’s report was as somber as a suicide note, after reading it all I could say was, “wow.”… Read full post »