A gentle spring rain this morning on California’s north coast, quiet and soft like a baby’s bottom — warm, too, like a full diaper. If this was the weekend, good sleeping weather. But it’s only Thursday and it’s just wet. And because of last night, I will face the horror before the weekend: A jackpot of $475 million ranks as the second largest in Powerball history and third biggest overall. No   Read More ...

High fog, low drizzle this way-too-early Wednesday here on California’s north coast, creating a dull-bummer this morning, despite the speed of the week. Hard to imagine we’re already reaching the weekend’s gravity pull. And internal-combustion engines are not only destroying the environment, but is emaciating time: In the country’s most gridlocked cities, commuters wasted an average of 42 hours sitting in traffic in 2012, the equivalent of one week of   Read More ...

Overcast and warm this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — we had some rain yesterday and last night, but not enough to really feel the wet. Although the banging was pretty strong when I dozed off to sleep, this morning there was just fog and some dripping heard pinging around the back patio. We not only need rain, but even more of it. Up here in Humboldt County we’re   Read More ...

Just when you thought George Jr. was even close to being pretty, a couple of horror-shots of his legacy loom large. The first: The escalating violence has residents of Baghdad stocking up on rice, vegetables and other foods in case fighting or curfews prevent them from getting to shops. “It is wrong to say we are getting close to a civil war,” a senior Iraqi politician said. “The civil war   Read More ...

What a difference 24-hours can make — or a week, or nearly seven years to the day. Politics in the US is currently a total bitch, filled with confusion, back-stabbing and hate. Yet with all this crude, ignorant bluster, there’s very little true-truth to power  — no deep-throated, gut-induced ironic-sarcasm at the horrible shape of this country. (Illustration found here). Irony is a fit description. Watching the White House Correspondents   Read More ...

Fog-drizzle this Tuesday morning up here along California’s north coast, but the cloud layer looks pretty thin as the fingernail-looking moon is barely shrouded in mist, giving the air a mellow-dramatic appearance. Word play is today’s bullshit subject. In the state of the news this morning, there’s still the wild and crazy Korean peninsula, Caroline Kennedy headed to Japan, and various other topics encompassing death, dying and disease. However, for   Read More ...

Nearly clear skies this early Friday, though, more rain is expected for us up here along California’s north coast, and it’s a bit chilly outside, too. One anniversary yesterday was nearly forgotten by most of the media — even I forgot it and it has more meaning for me beyond a big, huge scare: The drama began at 4 a.m. on Three Mile Island, located in the middle of Susquehanna   Read More ...

High overcast and fairly warm relatively speaking this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, and we did get some rain in the evening yesterday, more is expected today, and the rest of the week. The wet we can use as this area so far this year been 25 to 35 percent of normal for rain, an opposite to the norm – Weather service hydrologist Reginald Kennedy: “We started out in December   Read More ...

Here we are again — Friday! High overcast this morning on California’s north coast and in getting ready for the weekend the weather for me doesn’t really play a part. The weekend is for catching up on sleep. The news cycle remains the same — shit here, shit there. And I can’t wrap anything of value around my brain to create some kind of post for now. Despite surfing all   Read More ...

Overcast and still warm this way-early Tuesday morning on California’s north coast, and if the recent past is any indication, this day will either be foggy, sunny or a mixture of both — who’s to really say? Weather up here is almost the same year ’round, not like just about everywhere else. Beyond the noodle that’s Washington, DC, and the fruit-flies holding court there, the bottomless pit of the endless   Read More ...