time immemorial
March 10, 2013Forgot the DST this morning, even with all the news-site-blurbs yesterday yakking about ‘spring forward’ — a good thing it’s Sunday and there’s no place of got-to-be, so time can just go and kiss my……
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Distorted reality
March 3, 2013Interesting, though, I don’t know if it’s real or not — can’t read Cyrillic. Some photos of supposed-fragments off the famous meteorite that flamed across the Chelyabinsk region of Russia last month can be seen here (via…
Boomer Go Boom!
January 29, 2013Once again, cloudy and drizzling rain this Tuesday morning up here along California’s northern coast — quiet and easy. Life all over ain’t so as scouring the news reveals it’s the Same Old Shit causing…
Tomorrow is today Yesterday
January 7, 2013Cloudy and wind-chilly this early Monday morning here on California’s northern coast, the first ‘real‘ day of the new year. Although technically, last Tuesday was the first and Wednesday the first ‘free‘ new day of…
New bit of Americana: ‘active shooter scenario’
December 13, 2012When a wee-young lad, I was subject to the now-ludicrous “duck and cover drills” in school where all us students practiced what to do in case of a Soviet nuclear attack. The whole scenario was…
Forewarned by the jury
December 9, 2012Cold and clear again this morning on California’s northern coast with more the same expected for the upcoming work-week. In with the unimpeded and out with the dumb-ass. Woke up this morning more on the…
Scary — Nature Comes A-Knocking
October 31, 2012Another Halloween, but slapped hard by nature — there’s a few million US people who won’t be prowling the streets tonight seeking after treats. The trick will be to crawl through Hurricane Sandy’s rubble and…
Faster, Faster
October 6, 2012Lost in all the political donkey/elephant shit spewed last week over the presidential debate, and, yesterday’s right-wing absurd silliness about the drop in the employment rate, was this, which should-have-been a headline-grabbing horror: “We know…
Weathering Climate Change
April 15, 2012Welcome to the real future: The National Weather Service received 121 reports of possible tornado touchdowns Saturday and early Sunday in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. This morning also via CNN, five people, including two…
Harvest Yesterday
November 23, 2011(Illustration found here). Tomorrow, of course, is turkey day — one of US peoples’ more obtuse holidays where actual thanksgiving gives way to stuffing the face with food. And like most of the other so-called…