‘Are These Times Contagious?’
June 30, 2020A black plague of news — Run: ‘Have I got a long way to run?‘ (Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Les Deux Saltimbanques: l’Arlequin et Sa Compagne,’ found here).
Category Archives: History
Quake!
June 24, 2020Earthquake just a few minutes ago, and according to the USGS, the shaker, located south of Lone Pine, California, registered a 5.8 on the Richter Scale. I was lying on my bed surfing the InterWebs…
Words of Wisdom
June 20, 2020In the mishmash of shit flowing through the airwaves nowadays, some words of wisdom from 17-year-old climate-change crusader, Greta Thunberg, who ignites the slender, but strong-adjoining thread between the coronavirus pandemic and the way-crisis in…
‘Wacko and Incompetent’
June 19, 2020An open-ugly side of hiring nasty, dip-shits: A few details via The Hill this afternoon: “The president makes hiring decisions based on the fact that he likes to have countervailing viewpoints,” McEnany told reporters during…
T-Rump No Semblance of Sense
June 12, 2020Most-excellent view of positions in the chain and empathy (great h/t Miss Cellania): A little together in diversity as shown by this study on integration in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2002 (Washington Post this morning):…
Walking Leroy in the Valley — Episode 14 (abridged)
June 12, 2020Breezy and not all-that-warm this late-afternoon Friday here in California’s Central Valley. Compared to yesterday (101-degrees), today has been a snap — it’s 77 right now and with cool gusts the ambiance is near-comfortable. Another…
T-Rump Is A Pure Asshole
June 5, 2020As the US continues down a perilous path with a unrelenting pandemic on one side, a fevered civil unrest on the other, the T-Rump accelerates his own shit-head ignorance without an ounce of empathy. This…
Warriors Not for the T-Rump
June 4, 2020Interesting in the context of civil unrest, the military side of the T-Rump bluster has turned the coin: Since the T-Rump’s ‘dominate’ rant, his blubbering about instigating the Insurrection Act, and subsequent walk to the…
Obama: ‘This Country Was Founded On Protest’
June 3, 2020Hot to say the least this Wednesday in California’s Central Valley — just turning 6 PM and it’s still 100-freaking-degrees, and apparently won’t really be tepid until well after dark. Tomorrow the same with a…
Lights Out! And We Get Scary Dark
June 1, 2020Overcast and mostly quiet this early-evening Monday here in California’s Central Valley. Seemingly, with every day an acceleration of a shitty ride further into calamity. And today no exception: Hysteria over this is natural, but…