In a sea of idiotic shit, maybe the most-dumb-ass yet: Legal realities via Law&Crime yesterday afternoon: As one law school civil procedure textbook notes, “the party with the burden of proof, usually the plaintiff, must have…
Cool and clear this early-evening Friday here in California’s Central Valley, and my sense right now feels a bit like a way-dark comedy seething with measurable trepidation — an unhinged monster is calling the shots…
A snapshot of Black Friday in a world dominated by a horror which would be funny if not for nuclear codes, and so forth, and the way-precarious position we’re in until Jan. 20, and maybe…
I saw this odd news item today: (Illustration found here). Only in 2020 — via the Guardian this afternoon: Residents of an Austrian village will ring in the new year under a new name –…
Actual reality of this day via the great Mark Twain: Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be…
Beyond politics and the virus: Climate change is earth’s biggest issue, and is more than just a problem for future generations.The shit is already here. The hottest warming-up spot is also one of the coldest…
Despite tons of evidence to the contrary, and the transition officially underway, the T-Rump is still blabbering about ballot-box fraud, and continued today backing-up personal nutcase/lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s induced public hearing in Pennsylvania on voting…
Since he was called winner of the 2020 presidential election more than two weeks ago, Joe Biden has acted presidential, and even more so today as he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris introduced the national…
As the T-Rump readies himself to pardon the annual turkey this near-midday Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley, the real story of the holiday season is rolling hard — ‘US Covid-19 cases could reach 20 million…
A turkey can’t remember how idiotic he truly be: In a juxtaposition of sane to bat-shit crazy today (Washington Post live blog this morning): President-elect Joe Biden plans to introduce his foreign policy and national…