Sunshine is good, but we really need rain to survive. Although our Pacific Northwest neighbors experienced drenching rainfall already this year, California has been pretty-much dry, somehow the storms missing us. Yesterday, the U.S. Drought…
A major environmental report largely ignored — methane is an air bitch: from ScienceAlert yesterday on a new study published in Nature: Methane is an ‘invisible climate menace’ — roughly 30 times more potent as a…
This country is up shit creek without a paddle — a group of federal judges had set an emergency meeting for today on matters that “could not wait,” but now have decided to wait after…
One day to the next, the T-Rump flies further off the corruption rails, not content with nasty meddling in court cases, now he’s just eliminating the justice part of the system and pardoning the already…
Just to keep up with non-T-Rump news, the planet is still getting hotter, and one of the creeping-hot spots is Antarctica — on the same day last week, an iceberg nearly the size of Atlanta…
In just a few days an obvious fracture in America’s supposed-rock of liberty: (Illustration found here). Brooklyn-based artist Tim O’Brien. who created the above image for a Time cover in June 2018: ‘“This portrait of…
Another sad event in the shifting world of good journalism. (Illustration found here). News gathering has always been a hard row-to-hoe, even in the best of times. Technology switched the goal posts all around, which…
Start another dumb celebration off right (h/t Miss Cellania): Just another Friday news-dump day… (Illustration found here).
Each day lately seems to bring its own shit-storm of dramatic nuttery. (Illustration: ‘William Barr – Caricature,’ by DonkeyHote, found here). Today’s episode concerns the continuing flak off the Roger Stone tribulations, a multi-faceted showcase…
Pot has been a mainstay for more than 46 years — for me, personally, catching the bong in 1974 — and the changes in just the last decade have been incredible and most-fascinating, especially with…