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 ...

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 ...

Crystal clear and a bit chilly this wee-early Monday, with the moon hanging like a white orb out over the Pacific. We’re forecast for some rain later today along California’s north coast, but we’ll just have to wait and see — weather here is always of the moment. Parsing through the news this morning, there’s generally the same-old-shit just redefined or updated for a new week, but it’s just still   Read More ...

Clear skies this early Sunday morning along California’s northern coast and the sun will soon pop up over the eastern mountains like thunder — although the forecast is for rain today, right now it’s gorgeous. And noted today for Californians: The public is invited to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of President Richard Nixon with a patriotic ceremony at his birthplace and boyhood home at 11 a.m. Sunday. Despite   Read More ...

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday was Sept. 11, 2001, eleven years later, and although US peoples mourned a horrible tragedy, the real shit-kicker is what’s happened since — the US and the world is at a nasty crossroads and with all the remembrances history has become a lie. The problem is we Americans think our shit don’t stink: The assumption of exceptionalism relieves our governing class from having   Read More ...

Another Monday, folks! Up here along the northern California coast another foggy and chilly early morning with the good possibility of maybe some sunshine later on the day — weather here is unpredictably predictable. Not so just a short space south of us where two new forest fires are threatening more than 3,500 homes and forcing thousands to evacuate Sunday night. Just a few miles south or east, away from   Read More ...

Sitting here this early Thursday morning surrounded by quiet, I can hear shit plop a mile away. Jezebel reflects: This whole Chick-Fil-A debacle, it seems, is all fat people’s fault. This might be a great week to be a chicken, but it’s the fucking worst week to be a fat gay guy. Apparently, the entire US political scene is nothing more than assholes pumping out bullshit — that’s not to   Read More ...

Just as 2012 gears up for the election high season, the fabled democracy touted by the US the last 200 years appears to have cracks in the voting booth — if Republicans can’t win on brains or sense, they’re trying to f*uck the country through guile. Voter ID laws — another brick in the lying wall. In the last two years, nine states have passed strict voter ID laws, including   Read More ...

Pornographic war creates sweet dreams: “I laughed as I heard a story,” said Ryan Endicott. “One of the platoons had strapped dead bodies from a gunfight on the hoods of their Humvees and then drove around the city for hours. . . . One (day) they brought in a car that had just been shot up. The driver’s fully intact brain was sitting in the back seat of the car.   Read More ...

In the midst of a crazed, over-gorged news cycle of  late –  from  weather  to sluts  — a continuing, most-nefarious news story popped up again this week in the announcement of a subdued settlement in just one legal aspect off what’s so-infamously now known as the BP Oil Disaster. Just as trial was to begin Monday, the supposedly $7.8 billion accord ended just one of a multi-part legal case again   Read More ...