Summer’s officially departed-outbound this Wednesday afternoon, but it’s still way-warm here in California’s Central Valley with temperatures notching out in triple digits, though, for the supposedly last time for a while, maybe this year. The…
As the backwash off T-Rump’s coup attempts pushing the Big Lie as he left office in January, along with knowingly lying about fraud, and other asshole endeavors, now there’s T-Rump trying to blow chaos into…
A brown tint to the air this Tuesday afternoon here in California’s Central Valley, most-likely smoke off the KNP Complex/Windy fires burning in the Sequoia National Park southeast from where I’m sitting on my ass…
(Illustration: Tall El Hammam in perspective; image found here). Off the regular news cycle on a mid-day Tuesday with a shout-out to a historical study on the destruction of an ancient city supposedly caused by…
Major news this Monday afternoon beyond the Wall Street market meltdown is an ugly benchmark made with the current continual horror-story — COVID-19 — as the US has apparently eclipsed Spanish flu dying a hundred…
(Illustration: ‘Mosiak II,’ by MC Escher, and found here). I caught the headlines Friday, and maybe a quick scan of a couple of articles, but nothing in-depth and no post (although I generally post major…
As if to soften the deafening shitstorm/clusterfuck of current life, another in our continuing series ‘Destination‘ (last one here) with some more acoustic-like music to soothe away the myriad troubles and woe — romance of…
Beyond the shit of America itself, some news today of a horrible science-fiction rattle in modern warfare — an Israeli assassination last year was carried out by robot sniper, and even with high-tech hardware, there…
(Illustration: Ancient Carved Stone Camel in Saudi Arabia, and found here). History is fascinating — today, right now, a Friday afternoon, is history in real-time. Yesterday is usually easily remembered (I’m about to turn 73),…
Newsflashes slow this mid-day Friday; maybe more substantial shit will fall this afternoon with a news dump flurry to beat the weekend and the normal deadness of media noise. Here, to fill the gap is…