US Back In The Climate-Change Game: Kerry Speaks To UN Summit

One of the top-notch items on President Joe Biden’s agenda is a return full-steam to addressing climate change, which under T-Rump was not just put on a back burner, but tossed-off the stove completely. In November, Biden named John Kerry to head the assault, making the move even more serious by creating for Kerry a…

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Dog (UPDATE: Champ and Major Arrive At The WH)

UPDATE This occurred after I posted last evening: Now back to the show… Along with Joe and Jill Biden taking-up residence in the White House, also for the first time in four years — dogs. The Bidens have two German shepherds, Champ and Major, but I couldn’t find any news about them arriving at the…

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Science Of COVID Misinformation And Dumb-Ass Conspiracy Theories

(Illustration:  Woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, ‘The Great Wave,’ found here). In human behavior it seems, accepting belief in a nut-job conspiracy theory and handling COVID-19 misinformation are two distinct dumb-ass positions. This for sure has been an era of conspiracy theories, pop-up delusions and deceptions galore, but with the virus it…

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Watershed Year — A Nowadays Flashback Reminiscence

A kind of Respite Friday — drizzling rain on-and-off all day here on my little speck in California’s Central Valley. Maybe more like a breathing-space day with the explosion of events already in just three weeks of a new year, which was supposed to be at least fractionally better than 2020. The news cycle appears…

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Day One Of ‘Square One’

Yesterday was one of those watershed-type days. Personally, I received an excellent follow-up medical review at UC Davis off my cancer surgery more than two years ago (next exam in a year), and nationally, Joe Biden became POTUS. The latter also a big thumbs-up in the health category. And this morning, a spring in the…

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First Biden White House Press Briefing: ‘Delightfully Sane’

One most-wonderful scene today with the new Biden adminstration is the return of the ‘sane’ and qualified press briefing without bullshit and ‘alternative facts:’ I missed most of todays events as they unfolded as I had a follow-up medical exam in the afternoon at UC Davis in Sacramento. However, I did catch Biden’s inauguration this…

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‘Democracy Has Prevailed!’ — President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.

Hip-hip hooray! (Illustration by Dave Granlund/CagleCartoons, found here). Watching just now the swearing-in of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is a massive, deep-gutted sigh of relief. Biden is currently giving his acceptance speech and bringing joy to the vast, vast majority of Americans watching at home, isolated and wary of life going forward, but that…

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Nationwide Memorial Service For COVID Dead

In a matter of hours, an era of weird-ass shit of constant lying and whining and bitching comes to an end. America did indeed have a first with the T-Rump — a way-obvious villain in the White House. All the shitty presidents past, James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, so forth, and even Dick Nixon, at least…

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