Butterfly Dread
August 5, 2012Another of the ‘canary in a coal mine‘ motif, this one via butterflies. Two years ago in the UK, a bunch of people calling themselves ‘citizen scientists,’ took part in the first Big Butterfly Count…
Category Archives: Environment
Dying Flowers For Our Children
July 25, 2012Another morning and another middle of the week — no horrible news to report this morning as I slept in an extra hour, just the continued death of life as we know it. Fog covers…
Dress for Success — Parched Earth Edition
July 19, 2012Urban Word of the Day: Successorize Noun: Item of clothing or apparel used to make you look or feel more successful In the way-near future, clothes and success will constitute whether one lives or dies…
‘Encounters’ and ‘Keystone Kops’
July 15, 2012Fog fairly thick this morning along California’s northern coast, listening to the TV as I work my laptop — nubile financial expert Paul Ryan on ‘Face the Nation‘ and blubber-blundering about Mitt Romney’s nefarious everything…
Dry-Gulched
July 13, 2012Another fogged early morning here on California’s northern coast and most-likely, too, another cool, moist day as the ‘June Gloom‘ continues on into the summer. Up here, we’re more gloom than doom as opposed to…
Denial Ain’t Just A River
July 11, 2012AFTERNOON UPDATE (Below) One can truly believe Republicans are all mouth but no brains — knock it down without any talk of an alternative: In the last year and a half, House Republicans have sent…
No Getting Over It
July 10, 2012Early this Tuesday, not quite 4 A.M. here on California’s northern coast, a morning of cool, moist fog with a day ahead of most likely the same — the sun might burn it off later…
Extreme Fireworks: ‘A truly peculiar moment’
July 4, 2012Here on California’s northern coast it’s cool and moist way-early this July 4, and most-likely will evolve into another sweet day — clear and warm. Nowadays, the word, ‘warm,’ however, is way-relative. Travel just a…
Gas of ‘Plunder’
July 3, 2012Although prices at us gas pumps are down and people will still hit the road this week, they won’t spend much along the way, especially for patriotic merchandise, including flags, apparel and decorations. And the…
‘A peculiarly Western phenomenon’
June 30, 2012As a single parent who raised five kids on a below-par income, there was never wasted food amongst us, and after each meal, not much left-over either. And shit never went bad in the fridge,…