Delusional Showers — ‘He Kept Us Safe’
November 13, 2015Ugly, dumb-ass memory: Jeb! during the second GOP debate in September: ‘“You know what? As it relates to my brother, there is one thing I know for sure: He kept us safe. I don’t know…
Category Archives: History
Melting Talks
November 13, 2015In a world getting warmer quick, what was considered ‘stable,’ might go unhinged, even in colder, drier climes — like Greenland’s northeastern glaciers. From Scientific American: But a new study detailed in the journal Science…
Marijuana — Least Community Drug Threat
November 6, 2015Clear-bright and chilly this Friday morning on California’s north coast with a fairly-decent rainstorm slated for this weekend. And more cool temperatures with the storm, too, as a low pressure shifts southward from the Gulf…
Disembodied Dick
November 5, 2015Overcast with occasionally some faded-yellow sunlight peeking through this Thursday morning on California’s north coast, an environment corresponding to a ‘slight chance‘ of wetness forecast for today, with a supposedly true rainstorm slated for Sunday.…
Another Iraqi Delusion
November 4, 2015Another news-cycle episode in the never-ending horror-subject of Iraq came with the death announced yesterday of Ahmed Chalabi, the grifter who played the US public for the 2003 invasion. Media coverage on Chalabi dying has…
History Block
October 25, 2015Last night at a Iowa fundraiser, Bernie Sanders proclaimed about the entire Republican Party: “They suffer from amnesia.” Mental incoherence is required — under the watch of the last GOP president: Worse attack ever on US…
George and Tony ‘Poodle’ Horrible Hokum
October 19, 2015As the fall turns into winter here on California’s north coast, another nasty-nugget from the lie-archives of the Iraqi war — according to a leaked memo, in public, Tony Blair was a seeker of peace,…
Afghan Apologue
October 15, 2015In the late-1960s in high school, I for a time devoured the work of James Michener, starting with “The Fires of Spring” (a spot-on narrative for an introverted, nerd/dork seeking a mysterious/romantic life), then maybe…
Summer ‘Bugs’
October 14, 2015As we luxuriate here in a sweet summer-like day… We as humans ain’t ready — via Phys.org this morning and ‘…a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, outlining what they describe…
Nixon — ‘He seemed to hate everybody’
October 13, 2015In the long, tortured life of us baby boomers, Dick Nixon is the sweating, nefarious crank in our history, always the turd floating across the ages to become the anchor-villain of modern American politics. Apparently…