Even as the world turns, the debt-ceiling trainwreck is still hollering on down the track with about two weeks left before the US powers off the rails into financial never-never land. Odd, though, the entire…
(Topside Note: Great-big thank-you this morning from this humble, tiny blog to Tengrain [Mock, Paper, Scissors] for a shout-out at Crooks&Liars‘ blog line-up — super-nice way to start the day). As we stare down a…
Overcast and brown once again this late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley, the blowback/blow-around off wildfires burning south of us. Further proof of days like this of being normal. In another overcast story in…
A smoke-tainted ambiance in the air this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley, with just an occasional slight dab of sunshine to give our view out windows a muted-bright sheen — once again, we’re…
Life is straddling a nasty fence right now, caught in an entanglement of a deadly pandemic, a crisis in democracy, and the accelerating effects of climate change. One is surging on us right now, killing…
Of all the Friday news dumps this particular Friday was another COVID-19 milestone — more than 700,000 Americans have now died from the virus. Especially looking at the tweet below, and those wonderful summer months…
In celebration of way-most-likely the last authentic American president in political/social reality elected old school within a system considered now as ‘quaint,’ or historically old-fashioned. And Republicans back then seemed to care about the country.…
Appropriately nice this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, with some enjoyable sunshine coupled with temps in the upper-80s, but well out of the hot zone. Also today out of an economic hot zone…
(Illustration: ‘Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing,’ by Sandro Fazlinovic, and found here). Pleasant late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — still in autumn mode. Meanwhile back East in DC, Congress is in a one-legged, one-armed…
In the sweep of shit, it appears the US could be approaching a deep fork in the road, or maybe the road itself ending, not only with the pandemic still way-circulating, but the entire US…