Category Archives: Health

Shortest Day, Longest Night — And Happy Birthday Samuel L Jackson!

December 21, 2021

Just a while ago this Tuesday morning, the real heads-up on our current life predicament — shortest day, longest night — and the starting of most-likely a festered winter of our discombobulation: Details via NASA:…

Manchin’s Misshapen Affinity

December 20, 2021

Fallout off Joe Manchin’s back-stabbing Joe Biden’s Build Back Better act continues to flare and fester, especially as it’s known Manchin is just being a asshole-douchebag — news right-off-the-bat this morning and his core realities…

Virus Of The Unvaxxed

December 20, 2021

Monday morning and Omicron time: US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy this morning (CNN): ‘“In the coming weeks, Tony, we are going to see a spike in cases. And that’s because Omicron is incredibly transmissible,…

Unprecedented Tech Whirlwind Creating Chaos — 2021 A Year Of Living ‘Faster And Faster’ And 2022 Most-Likely Even Worse

December 19, 2021

Bypassing the roaring news cycle this evening, a brief current-affairs history insight. In this past year, along with a horrifying, never-ending pandemic, severely-serious Republican democracy dismantlement (and pandemic enhancement), and a shitload of lesser ills,…

Snowless In The Mountains: Global Warming Imacts

December 18, 2021

Sunshine earlier this afternoon, and now a pleasant Saturday evening in California’s Central Valley, this another post tagging along with one earlier today on the ill business of climate change — Rod Serling strolling the…

Climate Change Induced Sea-Level Rise — Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday’ Glacier Melting Down And Could Be Gone In Less Than Five Years

December 18, 2021

(Illustration: ‘Antarctica,’ Esri/Antarctica REMA Explorer, and found at the BBC). In the press of daily activities, both in the ever-shitty news cycle and most-likey within each of our lives, the wondrous COP26 climate conference is…

Biggest Aid In COVID Surge — ‘Vaccine Protection’

December 17, 2021

As the COVID pandemic appears to be getting ready to hit the high-surge button again, this particular virus news story this morning was not top of a lot of media lists, usually well down on…

COVID Surges: Hopefully, Optimistically Not ‘A Darker Cloud Of Concern And Despair’

December 15, 2021

Pandemic agitation and horror continue as it appears the US, and most likely the world, will feel a COVID-19 surge this winter (sooner than later) and despite all the vaccines you’d need/want being readily available…

California COVID Surge Despite High Vaccination Rates: ‘Still In A Risky Situation’

November 20, 2021

Sunshine again this late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — there was deep fog earlier but burned off and we found ourselves with a nice autumn day, with warmish temperatures stoked by cool, wimpish…