This a photograph taken via cell phone near Willits, located in California’s Mendocino County, and e-mailed to me. Cloud formations are always inspiring, but this shot is oddly fascinating with an intriguing, pleading image for…
(Illustration found here). Another dire study on the state of nowadays. Although climate change, peak oil and all the assorted ugliness associated with both have been flashed around the news wire for months, if not…
In just a few words, the current plight of mankind: “It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now…
“But February made me shiver With every paper I’d deliver. Bad news on the doorstep; I couldn’t take one more step. — ‘American Pie,’ Don McLean Surfing Internet news sites can be overly-depressing. Any kind…
War-making equipment down through history has on many occasions been transferred to civilian uses, some of these shifts have been bad, some good and some creepy-dangerous. George Orwell would blow chunks nowadays at the direction…
On the weekends, my blogging window-of-performance-opportunity is kind of whacked. During the ‘work week’ its early and quick, but Saturday and Sunday presents a longer, more-lazy approach to venting my writing obsession (blogs are a…
Eye witness to climate change. From ThinkProgress and Minnesota meteorologist Paul Douglas: Yesterday a rapidly intensifying storm, a “bombâ€, spun up directly over the MN Arrowhead, around mid afternoon a central pressure of 953 millibars…
A new study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) describes a gosh-awful state of affairs for the planet in just a few short years. From ClimateProgress and the NCAR’s report author, Aiguo Dai:…
The future has been downloaded into just about right now. “If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs,…
Global warming (oops, sorry, “global climate disruption”) is indeed cancer, an illness as hypothesized by a recent report most-likely a man-made disease and like the earth’s hurting environment, a product of the industrial age. A new Yale…