Climate-Plan ‘Bullshit’
November 28, 2015In climate news, the big-story is COP21, the UN talks starting Monday in Paris. Despite the reality, a lot of the gloss is greased oratory: “The stars are more aligned right now to reach agreement…
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‘Thanks’ A Lot…
November 26, 2015Always just issue Mark Twain’s famous little speech on Thanksgiving, which seems to sum-up the ritual: “Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they…
Benghazi! Climate Change
November 23, 2015Republican William Ruckelshaus, 83, appointed by Dick Nixon in 1970 to be first head of the EPA (the Guardian): “The Republicans aren’t helping, they are just responding to the convictions of the base that climate…
Reaction Panic
November 16, 2015Bright and chilly this Monday morning on California’s north coast. A more-crisp feel to the air as we’re experiencing a lull in the rain for a few hours — the NWS had earlier invoked a…
Delusional Showers — ‘He Kept Us Safe’
November 13, 2015Ugly, dumb-ass memory: Jeb! during the second GOP debate in September: ‘“You know what? As it relates to my brother, there is one thing I know for sure: He kept us safe. I don’t know…
Veterans…
November 11, 2015Overcast a bit and cold this Wednesday morning on California’s north coast, sunshine showing itself often, but not enough. A slight chance of rain (about 15 percent), but doesn’t really look it. Today is Veterans…
Climate ‘Uncharted’
November 9, 2015Soft rain this Monday morning on California’s north coast, maybe a rung lower than drizzle, as our latest storm front seems to be finally dying out, even after yesterday’s beautiful, bright afternoon. Light-rain came at…
Disembodied Dick
November 5, 2015Overcast with occasionally some faded-yellow sunlight peeking through this Thursday morning on California’s north coast, an environment corresponding to a ‘slight chance‘ of wetness forecast for today, with a supposedly true rainstorm slated for Sunday.…
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…
Campus Crazy in a Stab of Panic
November 4, 2015Personal involvement this morning in a national freak-out — more college violence, the latest at the University of California Merced, located about 60 miles north of Fresno, with five wounded, the attacker shot by police…