‘Post-Truth’ Lying
December 6, 2016Overcast this Tuesday morning on California’s north coast, with threat of rain showing itself. Cold tonight, too, for a week of wet ahead. Ahead also is life in the ‘post-truth‘ era of American life —…
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Journalism and T-Rump
November 29, 2016Sharp, clean sunshine this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, way-chilly, though. As a former newspaper writer-person, reporting on T-Rump and his off-vibrates has got to be weird as shit — for the first-time ever…
Distracted Imagination Behind the Wheel — Phones Off!
June 9, 2016Overcast again this near-noon Thursday on California’s north coast, today’s environment courtesy of a moist combo of low clouds and patchy fog — cool, but feels warmer than you’d figure. Forecast the same for a…
Tri-Counties Glitch in the Matrix
April 19, 2016Sunshine and warm this early Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast — supposedly the same the next couple of days, maybe rain by Friday. An odd incident earlier, and not very assuring either — my…
Face of ‘Super Tuesday’
March 2, 2016In the black-comedy/traveling-horror show of the GOP, the actual set-piece of the production occurred last night. The vacuum idiot-stare of crazed ignorance tells the tale. (Illustration: Chris Christie’s lost look and Internet reaction found here).…
Melting Talks
November 13, 2015In a world getting warmer quick, what was considered ‘stable,’ might go unhinged, even in colder, drier climes — like Greenland’s northeastern glaciers. From Scientific American: But a new study detailed in the journal Science…
Another Iraqi Delusion
November 4, 2015Another news-cycle episode in the never-ending horror-subject of Iraq came with the death announced yesterday of Ahmed Chalabi, the grifter who played the US public for the 2003 invasion. Media coverage on Chalabi dying has…
‘Covered’ Asshole
August 7, 2015Yesterday, the 70th-anniversary of Hiroshima, and another notable milestone, too, — one with a major, major ‘what if?‘ narrative. Review of the 2006 book, “The One Percent Doctrine,” via the Washington Post (h/t Digby).: The book’s…
‘Truthiness’ Truism
July 7, 2015In the wake of pyrotechnic Fourth of July celebrations this past weekend and the noted ‘exceptional’ peoples back-slapping we all seem to do on this particular holiday, there also should be a pause for reality.…
Terror Is As Terror Does
June 26, 2015A light-overcast through a thin marine layer this early Friday on California’s north coast — a bright-gray light to end the work-week. Appears as if yesterday: quick burn-off, a warm afternoon tempered by a cool…