The Barstool Journal of Jonco Bugos

Saturday, January 28, 2006

1+1=3

The old mathematical formulas are apparently no longer in effect, like having lower gasoline prices when supplies are plentiful and demand is great.

The price will be high because the oil companies know they'll get their sales, regardless of price, if people are still driving a lot. And when supplies are low and demand is great, prices are naturally high and no one argues that case. And the scenario of low prices and low demand simply never occurs in the motoring real world, it's just there to show that all things are possible in our vast universe.

Even the fantasy realm of high gasoline supplies combined with low demand. The prices used to come down, in that event, but when the Earth polar shift occurred back in the 1970s making wrong into right, up into down and black-and-white into a more usable gray, the oil industry jumped on that bandwagon for a long, free ride that will seemingly never end.

These days, if any business offers a product that isn't selling, they simply raise their prices instead of lowering them. Then they just sit back and watch American consumers, like lemmings headed for a cliff, flock to the pumps and the malls, bleeding their bank accounts to death along the way. Is it any wonder that when I run ads for Michael Casher's books I get sales pitches instead of readers in return?

But what the hell am I complaining about? Up in Mexico and way down in Canada, things are probably no better.

Saturday, January 21, 2006

What is a Think-A-Holic?

A think-a-holic is someone that other people accuse of thinking about things too much.

A true think-a-holic is a also a doer, a man or woman of action, not just a dilettante who mezzes out in front of the tube during commercials or who goes to the library to meet people instead of actually reading books and periodicals.

A think-a-holic suspects that there is a better way to do a lot of things but isn't fooled by flash-in-the pan fads that try to displace the conventional and the traditional with superficiality.

A think-a-holic actually knows what the word superficiality means.

A think-a-holic would never confuse another think-a-holic with someone who simply has an obsession with thinking and not doing anything. Those who obsess don't read books. They just obsess.

Too radical for you? Then you're probably not a think-a-holic.

Go out and celebrate.