It’s Friday! Hip, hip, oorah! Two and a half days off to get our collective sanities back. More hot weather is in store mandating more cold beverages of the craft variety. Gas prices are up due to a fire at a Tulsa refinery and a pipeline rupture in Wisconsin. Try using those types of excuses in getting a salary increase at work. As usual, we find ourselves at the mercy of the stock market speculators and in the jaws of the bureaucratic Channellocks. Enough!

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