Crystal clear and warm this Wednesday morning on California’s northern coast and the near-full moon dominates the western sky, creating a sun-up look albeit from the opposite direction. A full moon due tomorrow — called this month, a “pink” moon, which also will take place on the same night as a lunar eclipse, but will be seen mostly everywhere else except the US. A most-disturbing, pink-eye aspect of the Boston Read More ...
Fog-in planet this Wednesday morning up here along California’s north coast, and in extremes, mirrors the horrible, sad fixation of mankind with war. War and whores have been around a long time — which one is the oldest profession? Let’s see here: The shit in Syria, the doo-doo in Mali, the crap in Afghanistan, the re-bubbling cesspool on the Gaza strip, the never-ending poop-fest in Iraq, and that’s just to Read More ...
New life on the InterWebs this morning — yesterday I got a new PC, and hopefully this will put an end to a shitload of stress, at least for awhile. Three laptops in three months — one was stolen, the second went shit-faced crazy, and upwardly optimistically, third time’s the charm. The new machine is a HP Pavilion G6 1010tu Core i3 — on sale at K-Mart. Well, we’ll see. One 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 ...
(Illustration found here). Ten years along and the recipients of “shock and awe” know it as a wide-awake nightmare — from the NY Times: At the pet market, Karrar Habeeb, a 22-year-old carpenter, paused, surprised to be asked about what was surely the defining event of his youth. “I didn’t know about it,” Mr. Habeeb said of the anniversary. “Are we still talking about the Americans? I don’t think we Read More ...
Slightly overcast this Monday morning along California’s northern coast and through the thin clouds stars can be seen twinkling high above — the start of another workweek and more deeper into the winter of discontent. I’m way-happy the Super Bowl nonsense is now history — except for those addled brains who will blubber of such shit for weeks — and as everybody danced around a pigskin formed like a tumor, Read More ...
Ground fog, but clear skies this early Friday morning along California’s northern coast, and it feels like it’s a warmer, too. buffoon Should be a good weekend up here, but back eastward it’s way-Arctic-cold for the upcoming holiday weekend and President Obama’s double-billed second inauguration — he takes the oath of office on Sunday in a private ceremony at the White House, and the public ceremony Monday on the Capitol Read More ...
Clear as a bell this election-day morning here along California’s northern coast with a half moon hung high in the heavens — the sound of the Pacific rolls easily to the ears. Not so across the US as polling stations open and Americans ready themselves to press the lever, bringing to an end a long, ugly ride. And boiling down to the undecided voter: “In reality, I’m actually just a spectacular Read More ...
(Illustration found here). Even out into the middle of the week, the shitstorm off Todd Akin’s revelation on Sunday of a female’s ability to ward off unwanted sperm still plays hard and heavy in the media — and not only in the US, but across the dying planet where he’s become known as the “rape-gaffe congressman.” Eve Ensler, author of the “The Vagina Monologues,” writing from the Congo where she Read More ...
Another of the ‘canary in a coal mine‘ motif, this one via butterflies. Two years ago in the UK, a bunch of people calling themselves ‘citizen scientists,’ took part in the first Big Butterfly Count to much-better track their slowly disappearing butterfly species — 10,000 people participated in the original, 34,000 last year, no telling yet how many involved with the current Big Count, it just started last Thursday and Read More ...
