Pump-U-Up
April 19, 2012In the midst of people/places/things making news this week, one item seemingly absent is any hysteria over high fuel prices. Competition for news time is tight, with the vernal Dick Clark dead at 82, Leon…
Category Archives: Cloud Gazing
Weathering Climate Change
April 15, 2012Welcome to the real future: The National Weather Service received 121 reports of possible tornado touchdowns Saturday and early Sunday in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. This morning also via CNN, five people, including two…
News Cycle Dump
April 12, 2012Raining hard this morning in the pre-dawn hours on California’s northern coast, upchucking a similar blistering shower of news gasping for air already. In the old but about time category, George Zimmerman has been nailed…
Bottom’s Up Monday
April 9, 2012Monday morning — again. And in these way-pre dawn hours here on California’s northern coast there’s quiet and peace and a bit warmer than normal. Just from the my perch, the world appears A-Okay, but…
Mosquito Maneuver
April 8, 2012In this past winter of our heated content, all those warm, blissful days in February and March — TVed from Chicago, New York and all points east — them soothing temperatures also created an incubator…
Atomic-Powered Crazy
April 7, 2012(Illustration: Salvador Dali’s ‘The Three Sphinxes of Bikini‘ found here). Apparently, another subject placed on the news cycle back-burner, thus, out of the public eye. Yesterday, from CNN on the NRC’s order putting southern California’s…
Butterfly Blather
April 6, 2012On the eve of the weekend again — time flies when you’re having fun. Just ask Monty Python-named character Reince Priebus, RNC honcho, who thinks butterflies are actually female body parts: “If the Democrats said…
Pump Dreams
April 4, 2012Weather tends to pop its now-ugly head into modern life on a much-more frequent schedule than just a few short years ago — yesterday afternoon tornadoes cleared a chaotic path through the Dallas-Fort Worth area,…
Monday Without A Clue
April 2, 2012Hard to fathom it’s not only another Monday morning, but another brand-new month — Santa Claus is way back down the road — and the planet keeps creeping forward into the gloom. Weekends are a…
Warmer Still — ‘No Way Out’
March 26, 2012Dramatic changes in climate are being rigged as plot devices for entertainment — ‘Are you not?’ From the New York Times review of the new film, “4:44 Last Day on Earth:” The cause of the…