Tea Party Tour
May 31, 2013Mostly clear skies this early Friday morning on California’s north coast, and a bit chilly, too. Up here, even on clear, sunny days, the wind out of the north can cut like a knife —…
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Feminine Labor
May 30, 2013High overcast and way-quiet this early Thursday on California’s northern coast, with the silence so compelling, the noise from the Pacific only a mile or so away, can barely be heard above all the hush-hush.…
Rectal Rain Rinse
May 29, 2013Rain again this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, feels like it’s getting wet all over the world. Especially among the fringe-first, not-so-subtle Republican party, or as GOP underlings say: “I mean, you’ve got to…
Truth portraits
May 28, 2013When President Obama spoke yesterday: “Regardless of reason, this truth cannot be ignored that today most Americans are not directly touched by war. As a consequence, not all Americans may always see or fully grasp…
Monday quiet
May 27, 2013Softly, quietly raining this early Monday on California’s north coast and in the still-dark air there’s a sense that seemingly all is well with the world, and peace reigns from here to Timbuktu. Yeah, right!…
‘It’s a newsroom, Henry’
May 26, 2013Bright and sunny this Sunday afternoon on California’s north coast — big weekend in Arcata, a little town just south of us and home to Humboldt State University, with what’s called the Kinetic Grand Championship,…
Boom!
May 26, 2013(Illustration found here.) Via Climate Progress: Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most thoughtful climate journalists. Her terrific 2006 book, ‘Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change,’ famously ends: “It may seem…
Memorial Early
May 26, 2013War remembered by the dead. Today is the day before Memorial Day, which is tomorrow, Monday — a sober holiday in its intention, but nowadays more to the BBQ and cheap beer. America is fairly…
Tattered wings of a weekend
May 24, 2013Overcast and a bit on the chilly side this way-early Friday on California’s north coast — the last couple of days could have been pulled from somewhere in January. Odd weather up here as we…
WTF! — wait til friday
May 23, 2013Clear and warm this early Thursday on California’s northern coast, with the near-full moon hanging like a white doorknob out over the Pacific Ocean. As we approach the weekend, the speed of life tends to…