An email yesterday from my daughter in Minneapolis, in part: Yeah, the weather! I thought it was over and then it started snowing again. . . This has been the longest winter of my life! Yeah, the weather…just depends on where you be. Near mid-day Saturday on California’s north coast and the environment/weather up here is absolutely ga-ga-gorgeous. Crystal-clear skies with way-warm sunshine — right now it’s 73 degrees with   Read More ...

One recent political, ricochet-rabbit-bombshell has been President Obama’s budget proposal — bits of it leaked two weeks ago, the whole shebang officially released last Wednesday — parts of which include cuts to Social Security through lowering life’s expectations. Obama wants people who are getting close to being old to just change how they live — he’s come up with a new formula to calculate the cost of living and finds   Read More ...

A brand-new week and a brand-new month — and no foolish jokes this Monday morning as we all try to be more smart than sorry. High overcast here on California’s north coast, but that’s just the weather. Time is double-timing down the old calender and it’s really, really hard to believe it’s April already, and winter seems such a distant past I can’t even remember that fat, red-decked asshole coming   Read More ...

Clear and cold this Friday morning, but not as cold as it should be — this winter so far has been easy and mild up here along California’s north coast. Weather is like a successful restaurant — all depends on location, location, location. And just a short space away could be disaster. The upper US East Coast has been getting a lot of rain the last couple of weeks, but almost none   Read More ...

Cold and a bit overcast this Thursday morning on California’ north coast and so far for us on the Pacific beach this current system has spared the worse. Out east (hah!), a huge storm has hit the fabled US capital with a surge: The storm was dubbed a “snowquester,” a play off the wonky “sequester” term used to describe the $85 billion in cuts from federal budgets over the next six months.   Read More ...

(Illustration found here). Raining pretty good this Tuesday morning on California’s north coast and it’s supposed to keep it up the next few days. Despite the inconvenience, it’s not so bad and we need the water, especially to the south of us. And we’re not so bad — my youngest daughter lives in Minneapolis and she’s going through her winter of discontent right now. Born and raised in the warm   Read More ...

Another Monday morning, and just no way around it — overcast and a bit chilly on California’s north coast with some real-winter weather due here this evening and tomorrow. We’re forecast for hail and even snow, but who’s to say — not like the US mid-section (again): Chicago could be buried by up to 10 inches of snow by midweek, forecasters say, adding another harsh chapter to a winter that started   Read More ...

Rainy, fog-bound, but warm this Thursday morning on California’s north coast as we trip lightly to the end of another month. And with the calender comes a shitload of stuff the average, walking-around American will have trouble trying to understand, despite all the shrill noise from DC and its environs. Understanding all the ugly might be mired too deep in shit to fully comprehend. (Illustration found here). A lot of   Read More ...

Next Friday — the snap-cut heard all around DC. Despite Village headmaster Bob Woodward’s assertion President Obama “owns” the up-coming sequester, Republicans are the source. Obama called ‘em out in his speech this morning: “Are Republicans in Congress really willing to let these cuts fall on our kids’ schools and mental health care just to protect tax loopholes for corporate jet owners?” Is suicide an incentive to live a better life?   Read More ...

Clear and cold again this Friday morning and the big winter storm expected from earlier this week hasn’t panned out as bad as originally figured. Of course, nothing like the horror show now engulfing middle America — Wichita, Kansas, hit with a record 14-inches of snow, and more to come. Across the US this morning, there’s not only a sense of crazy, but actual crazy. (Illustration found here). Surfing the news   Read More ...