Happy Meal — NRA Style
October 24, 2013High overcast this early Thursday on California’s north coast — we’re now so close to the weekend it’s not funny. And what’s not funny is guns and kids, what’s up with that? This week has…
Category Archives: Health
Myth of the Great Equalizer
October 22, 2013Another school-shooting horror yesterday in Sparks, Nevada, and once again no one can figure it out. Via the Seattle Times: “Everybody wants to know why — that’s the big question,” Sparks Deputy Police Chief Tom…
Rage Against the Scream
September 26, 2013Clear and cold this Thursday morning along California’s northern coast — the moon hanging like a fat-ass fingernail in the eastern sky. And the sound of the peaceful Pacific Ocean can heard roaring a couple…
Cruz Control — Baked Ham and ‘Wacko Birds’
September 25, 2013Raining and cold this early Wednesday on California’s north coast and as we hit mid-week, shit is flying all over, especially from the face of bat-shit crazy. As I type, far across this nation in…
‘Inadvertent Criticality’
September 21, 2013Under the news layers, another slice of possible horror from the never-ending terror-tale of the Fukushima nuclear plant — this time the possible extraction of 1300 spent fuel rods from Unit 4: Conditions in the unit…
Chuck that Steak
September 17, 2013Drizzling rain this way-early Tuesday on California’s north coast, and the weather matches the mood. Horror once again yesterday via another gun massacre at DC’s Washington Navy Yard — 12 dead and eight wounded. And…
Rice and Atomic Number 33
September 7, 2013News like this is a bit disconcerting, if not border-line, paranoid-frightful (via USAToday): In tests for arsenic in more than 1,300 samples of rice and rice products, the Food and Drug Administration has found levels…
Boom the Boomers
September 5, 2013Slightly overcast this way-too-early Thursday on California’s north coast as we wade toward the end of the week. Another scorcher for us as temps are expected to be in the 70s again today, and even…
Aging is for Old People
August 26, 2013Monday again! And there’s not a dang thang I can do about it, either. Sad news over the weekend, singer Linda Ronstadt has Parkinson’s disease. She told AARP online: “No one can sing with Parkinson’s…
Fuk-Up
August 25, 2013An on-going creepy story not getting much airplay nowadays (via BBC News): “The quantities of water they are dealing with are absolutely gigantic,” said Mycle Schneider, who has consulted widely for a variety of organisations…