Worriment Weather

Storm-terrific this early Thursday on California’s north coast, with gusty winds and heavy rain, the season’s real opener. Just a short while ago, the wind eruptions were pretty-fierce, rattling the apartment’s woodwork, fluttering nearby tree limbs, and coupled with smashing-into-windows rain pellets, and presto — weather anxiety. Why the shit not? Personal observation, and from the…

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Spiraling Downward

An absolute-hateful event — after a nice nap, a cup of coffee going, and shortly after waking-up the laptop, a terrifying thingy lurches out from the screen, knocks the freaking-fucking living-shit out of me: ‘Gunmen opened fire on a holiday party on Wednesday at a social services agency in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people…

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Humanity’s ‘Dark’ Side

Gloomy-dark overcast this Wednesday afternoon on California’s north coast as we’re in the midst of a fairly-decent rainstorm with some heavy precipitation due later this afternoon and tomorrow. Although the air doesn’t feel too bad right now, supposedly there’s windy weather a-coming — according to the NWS: ‘A strong cold front will bring gusty south…

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‘President Bush doesn’t know how to think’

One of few military people who had much-more sense than his peers was the late Gen. William Odom, who in 2005 way-understated the horror: ‘“The invasion of Iraq may well turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in American history.”‘ Odom, who died in 2008, couldn’t fully grasp a decade ago how intense, and widespread…

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Metaphor Reality

Darkly-overcast this Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast, an apt environment for supposed rainstorms cruising our way — we’re forecast for some heavy precipitation all this week, with a big gusher slated for Wednesday. Leading edge of the newest weather front is predicted for this evening. Outside right now, all appearances indicate any time. As…

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