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California’s Real Wildfire

Posted on September 11, 2020 by MN Gordon

The real fire in California is the wildfire that’s raging at CalPERS. The fire, you see, is a fire of arithmetic. It’s a fire that won’t go away. And it’s a fire that’ll burn the whole state to the ground. Continue reading →

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From Fake Boom to Real Bust

Posted on April 20, 2018 by MN Gordon

More is revealed with each passing day.  You can count on it.  But what exactly the ‘more is of’ requires careful discrimination.  Is the ‘more’ merely more noise?  Or is it something of actual substance?  Today we endeavor to pass … Continue reading →

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Pray for Rain

Posted on February 4, 2014 by MN Gordon

Here in the Golden State everything’s brown.  The hillsides are dry and the scrubland vegetation’s a giant tinderbox.  Sierra snowpack is only 12 percent of normal…the lowest it’s ever been since California began keeping records in 1960. The wildfires don’t … Continue reading →

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Jerry’s Definitive Moonshot

Posted on November 27, 2012 by MN Gordon

Southern California has wonderful weather.  Within the coastal zone it’s especially wonderful.  The sun shines bright every day, there’s low humidity, and a cool breeze wafts off the Pacific Ocean making things perfectly pleasant.  You just can’t beat it. But … Continue reading →

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