Category Archives: History

In The Rafters With The Debt Ceiling

September 23, 2021

(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…

America’s Murder Rate Last Year Highest Since 1960 — No Precedent For The Increase

September 23, 2021

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…

T-Rump’s Big Lie: ‘Never About Fraud … About Undermining The People’s Faith In Our Democracy’

September 21, 2021

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…

COVID Count: Higher Death Toll Than Spanish Flu — ‘Gob-Gob-Gob-Smacked To The Nth Degree’

September 20, 2021

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…

High-Tech War Executions — Terminator Robots Come Alive To Kill

September 18, 2021

Beyond the shit of America itself, some news today of a horrible science-fiction rattle in modern warfare — an Israeli assassination last year was carried out by robot sniper, and even with high-tech hardware, there…