Olivia Newton-John — R.I.P.
August 8, 2022Olivia Newton-John has died, it was announced today. She was 73, same age as me. In the 1970s I had a continuous crush on Stevie Nicks, Diane Keaton, and Olivia Newton-John. A most-peculiar period for…
Category Archives: Health
BFD: A Rose Is Still A Rose — Senate Passes IRA
August 7, 2022Yes, indeed. It is a Big Fucking Deal. The value/impact comes not only from what’s in the Inflation Reduction Act itself but that the bill actually passed the Senate, despite the notorious Manchin-Sinema one-two franchise…
Summertime ‘Danger Season’ Due To Global Warming
August 4, 2022Hot and still this near-noon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — temperature near 100 alfrerady and without hardly a hint of wind, makes the air heavy and creates a feeling of even more heat.…
Catastrophic Climate-Change Risks Are Unexplored — ‘We Must Do The Maths Of Disaster In Order To Avoid It’
August 2, 2022Mid-summer’s nightmare as heat and fire together in a deadly, dangerous mix — in California, the McKinney fire near the Oregon border has burned 56,000 acres and killed four people so far, further north in…
Scream! Climate Change, Point Of No Return, Or Not?
July 31, 2022Our environment here this late-afternoon Sunday in California’s Central Valley is the future of the right now — musty hot with a forest-fire tinge of burnt wood. In the real scheme of things, despite some…
Jon Stewart On Republicans: ‘How Are These people human? Where’s Any Sense Of Decency, From Any Of Them?’ — ‘Motherfuckers’
July 28, 2022Once again a blowback to asshole Republicans on Capitol Hill and their nasty, cruel approach to everything was on display this morning — in the shadow of the Manchin/Schumer agreement from yesterday, Senate GOPers retaliated…
Heat Getting Hotter: Pacific Northwest Sets Records — Again!
July 27, 2022Not-so-bad heat near-noon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — almost pleasant you could say without being a sarcastic asshole. We’re forecast for a high of under 100 degrees today, so that’s the good news…
Al Gore On Climate-Change Measures: ‘The Survival Of Our Civilization Is At Stake’ — Yet Republicans Delay Action
July 25, 2022Heat is increasing near noon Monday here in California’s Central Valley — we might hit triple-digits later this afternoon, but the air right now seems to be getting hotter by the hour. However, just another…
Tweet Of The Emotional Moment
July 24, 2022In this age of mass killings in public — an America-only horror story — this captures the emotion of the moment. I got a brief teary-eyed at the end (h/t tweet tengrain): Although I haven’t…
Scream: ‘Josh Hawley Is A Bitch’
July 22, 2022We’re warming up this near-noon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — another hot day already, yet it’s become normal for the time. Later this afternoon, triple-digit temps are supposedly scheduled, but since this has…