Category Archives: Oil

Bernie in Bakersfield

February 23, 2020

No, I better not go. I think I’m too busy. But busy doing what? I’ve been writing about Donald Trump for several years and working to finish my second book about the blowhard from Queens. I can’t sit at my computer when Bernie Sanders is just a few miles away and soon to speak. I […]

Also posted in Bernie Sanders, Cars & Driving, Climate Change, Donald Trump, Environment, Michael Bloomberg

Why Saudi Oil was Attacked

September 17, 2019

You want to know who is responsible for the drone strikes that blasted the world’s largest oil distribution facility and temporarily knocked out half of Saudi Arabia’s production. Let’s follow the trail. China, Russia, the United States, and Europeans allies bargained arduously with Iran and in 2015 the nations signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of […]

Also posted in Donald Trump, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Nuclear Weapons, Yemen

I’m No Bitch

November 22, 2018

Who the hell’s Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard? She’s a nobody who better quit calling me “Saudi Arabia’s bitch” or I’ll soon be telling you plenty about this sneaky woman in a hula skirt who wants to be president. Let’s be honest. You love oil and you need it. You want to walk? Better thank my Saudi […]

Also posted in CIA, Donald Trump, Iran, Jamal Khashoggi, Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia, Tulsi Gabbard

Diplomatic Dandy

May 25, 2017

i made deals and scared terrorists in middle east before jetting to europe to celebrate my making nato great again

Also posted in Donald Trump, Europe, Middle East, NATO

Green Speak

March 12, 2017

at green party convention in smoky red bakersfield jill stein declares make frigging wars for oil obsolete

Also posted in Bakersfield, Donald Trump, Jill Stein

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson

December 17, 2016

Rex Tillerson rides a fast elevator to the world’s most vital place, the Trump Tower office of Donald J. Trump. “Welcome, Rex.” “I’m honored to be here, Mr. President.” “Ever see anything this majestic?” “Sure, I’ve been to the Krelim many times, but this place is awful nice, too.” “That’s why you’re here. We need […]

Also posted in Donald Trump, Rex Tillerson, Russia, Vladamir Putin

General Aladeen Assails Sacha Baron Cohen and “The Dictator”

May 23, 2012

Obscene, self-righteous, and unfunny Sacha Baron Cohen has earned a few hundred million dollars, in movies “Borat” and “Bruno,” by insulting rubes in Kazakhstan and the United States, and then either deflecting or burying their lawsuits. Now you can be assured that I, General Aladeen, supreme leader of Wadiya, will by all necessary means forever […]

Also posted in Borat, Middle East, Movies, Sacha Baron Cohen, Terrorism

America to Afghanistan

March 12, 2012

This story is from the collection “Obama on Edge”

Also posted in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Middle East, Poetry - GTC, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism

Spanish Influenza – Part 2

February 1, 2012

good morning spanish influenza says entering healthy young adult hearts pump lungs full fatal fluid that evening or next eighty million perish worldwide most in frenetic ninety days twenty million in october ‘eighteen india about seven hundred thousand in u.s. bakersfield pummeled more still in oilfields where filthy makeshift hospitals hold tough young immigrants prior […]

Also posted in Bakersfield, Influenza, Kern County, Poetry - GTC, World War I

Chevron Tests Aftereffects of Oil Wells in Ecuador

January 24, 2012

chevron swears did not contaminate land and water in amazonian northeast ecuador then have drink say plaintiffs chevron says not thirsty but water fine watch this throws rock does not sink Source: “Reversal of Fortune” by Patrick Radden Keefe in The New Yorker January 9, 2012

Also posted in Amazon River, Chevron, Ecuador, Environment, Poetry - GTC, Rivers, Texaco

Outline J. Paul Getty

December 23, 2011

don’t bother biography j paul getty only need remember earned billions threatened employees spending company dimes and when young women rebuked for ignoring replied i shall miss you my dear