Category Archives: History

Climate Change Is Here! — Part Infinity

July 3, 2021

(Illustration: ‘Landscape of Change,’ by Jill Pelto, and found here). Hot and dry this Saturday afternoon here in California’s Central Valley, and though it’s warm, it’s nothing like the last week or so. Outside it’s…

Poll: Majority Of Americans Believe Democracy Under Threat

July 2, 2021

In a sense of relief, I’m not the only one scared shitless and paranoid about America’s democratic future: Details via PBS this morning: Two-thirds of Americans (67-percent) believe democracy in the United States is under…

US House Okays Select Committee On Capitol-Building Attack (Update) — NYT Publishes ‘Visual’ Horror Video Of Assualt

June 30, 2021

Update: A new, unvarnished video view of the Capitol-building attack from The New Times this afternoon — main written detail: The work of understanding Jan. 6 has been hard enough without this barrage of disinformation…

Michael Mann: ‘That Heat Dome? Yeah, It’s Climate Change’

June 30, 2021

As weather/climate change has become a major, near-continous, much-copious series of news stories, this a fortuitous film moment in Kansas: Not much information beyond the video — did find this via Yahoo: ‘In the midst…

COVID Delta Variant Creating ‘A Pandemic Of Unvaccinated People’

June 29, 2021

Starting to get warmer this mid-morning Tuesday here in Califoria’s Central Valley — we’re temp-wise forecast for triple-figures again by mid-afternoon, but the bad heat seems past us, for right now. Low-90s reportedly rest of…