This country is indeed in frightful, dispiriting peril. A for instance: In response to the terrible Texas law, House Democrats this morning passed the Women’s Health and Protection Act, which would establish a federal right…
(Illustration: ‘Government Shutdown Crisis,’ by Nonja Tiller, and found here). As if Americans didn’t currently have enough on their collective-disaster plate, now there’s the idiotic GQP-influenced debt ceiling bullshit, maybe leading to a US government…
Cool and comfortable this mid-day Thursday here in California’s Central Valley as apparently-obvious we’re into the autumn season — if only it stayed this way. Winter, however, is now one day closer. Dying in the…
Summer’s officially departed-outbound this Wednesday afternoon, but it’s still way-warm here in California’s Central Valley with temperatures notching out in triple digits, though, for the supposedly last time for a while, maybe this year. The…
As the backwash off T-Rump’s coup attempts pushing the Big Lie as he left office in January, along with knowingly lying about fraud, and other asshole endeavors, now there’s T-Rump trying to blow chaos into…
A brown tint to the air this Tuesday afternoon here in California’s Central Valley, most-likely smoke off the KNP Complex/Windy fires burning in the Sequoia National Park southeast from where I’m sitting on my ass…
(Illustration: Tall El Hammam in perspective; image found here). Off the regular news cycle on a mid-day Tuesday with a shout-out to a historical study on the destruction of an ancient city supposedly caused by…
Major news this Monday afternoon beyond the Wall Street market meltdown is an ugly benchmark made with the current continual horror-story — COVID-19 — as the US has apparently eclipsed Spanish flu dying a hundred…
(Illustration: ‘Mosiak II,’ by MC Escher, and found here). I caught the headlines Friday, and maybe a quick scan of a couple of articles, but nothing in-depth and no post (although I generally post major…
As if to soften the deafening shitstorm/clusterfuck of current life, another in our continuing series ‘Destination‘ (last one here) with some more acoustic-like music to soothe away the myriad troubles and woe — romance of…