Early Sunday Evening

(Illustration found here). A deeply-beautiful afternoon on California’s northern coast — finally after what’s  seem like weeks and weeks of rain in various forms, so far, appears like we will get a full-day’s worth of sun, and, there’s not much wind, so it’s about as good as it gets up here. A lawn mower bangs…

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Pump-U-Up

In 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 Panetta trying to explain away another Afghan horror photo as “…not who we are…,” three SS agents forced out in…

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News Cycle Dump

Raining 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 with a second-degree murder charge and is right now in jail awaiting to see if there’s going to be bail…

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Mosquito Maneuver

In 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 for weird, and possibly some bad shit. Dr Alison Donnelly of Trinity College Dublin’s Centre for the Environment on the near-simplicity…

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Atomic-Powered Crazy

(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 San Onofre nuclear power plant out of commission indefinitely until somebody figures out how radioactive gas is leaking from a…

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Butterfly Blather

On 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 we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war…

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Pump Dreams

Weather 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, with video showing tractor-trailers being tossed around like toys. CNN meteorologist Sean Morris estimated the tornadoes were EF1 or EF2…

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