Dick’s Hatband
May 9, 2011By far, the biggest problem facing this good earth is climate change and the horrible consequences of humanity’s greed is right now plying its whirlwind. As I type these words in the wee hours of…
Category Archives: Cloud Gazing
What? Me Worry? — Beyond the Osama Smokescreen
May 5, 2011Are we finished with Osama bin Laden, already? If the killing of the murderous shithead doesn’t change the insanity of the so-called ‘war on terror’ than the whole thing is just a media spin to…
Economic Recovery and Splitsville
April 29, 2011Taking up smoking cigarettes has got to be one of the most dumb-ass things I’ve ever done in my life — except maybe for being married twice! From AFP in honor of Kate and Bill…
Perilous World
April 28, 2011Weather horror back East is only a prelude to the coming commonplace. A tornado onslaught yesterday killed 159 people across the US south, 128 in my birth state of Alabama — a catastrophic situation which…
Dr. Methane Gun, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Extinction
April 26, 2011In viewing climate change, every so often there comes along some aspect of that horror-in-coming that’s even more morbid, more dark-cast depressing than normal, and one of those is the impact of methane gas deposits…
Faster, Uglier
April 21, 2011(Illustration found here). As 2011 marches right along, and even as we celebrate the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill (BP high-fived the celebration by doling out big bucks to Republican ass-kissers), and try…
End Cycle
April 19, 2011Human life does indeed travel in cycles — spring, summer, fall and winter — with birth, youth, middle age and the final and abrupt circuit, death. History also appears to move in cycles and the…
Too Much of Everything
April 18, 2011Peter: Let me ask you something. When you come in on Mondays, and you’re not feeling too well, does anybody ever come up to you and say “sounds like someone’s got a case of the…
Earthquakes and Climate
April 14, 2011In light of the ongoing horror in Japan — an earthquake induced nuclear meltdown — there’s been a dust-up down in my old stomping ground of central California as PG&E attempts to renew the license…
A World Above — Fifty Years Rocket Past
April 12, 2011Just after 1 a.m., April 12, 1961, a Soviet Vostok rocket blasted off from Baikonour cosmodrome, which alerted US radars in the Aleutian Islands. Twenty-three minutes later, Jerome Wiesner, JFK’s scientific adviser, was notified by…