Category Archives: History

Too Late The Hero — Don McGahn’s Congressional Testimony Near-Useless In The Nowadays, Except To Make Everyone Mad As Shit The T-Rump Will Slide

June 9, 2021

A rehash today sort of in old news, shit now without consequence, other than for flashback dark-comedic laughs: Background/details via Law&Crime, late this afternoon: In a fit of pique over Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia…

‘Joints-For-Jabs’ A Real Thing — Incentive To Get Vaccinated!

June 8, 2021

Although the entire concept is crazy — an incentive to make you get a free, easy, near-painless injection that could save you or your family from a most-gruesome death — and these inducements have ranged…

California Drought And Continuing Climate Change: Therefore — ‘A Lot Of The Slack In Our System Has Already Been Used Up’

June 7, 2021

(Illustration: US Drought Monitor, California, found here). Sunny but cooler than normal this Monday afternoon in California’s Central Valley, a seemingly off-day from the heat we’ve experienced the last week or so — yet the…

T-Rump The Idiot: In Order To Stop Hackers, Stop Using Computers — Instead ‘Go Back To A Much More Old-Fashioned Form Of Accounting And Things’

June 7, 2021

Yesterday, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm spoke ominously on how susceptible the US is to hackers: ‘Asked By CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” whether the nation’s adversaries have the capability of shutting it…

Dastardly Debbie-Downer For Democracy — Manchin Mangles America!

June 6, 2021

Joe Manchin is a self-centered, self-righteous asshole. He made it official this morning in an unofficial opinion piece he’d never vote for the ‘For The People Act‘ — maybe the only sole/soul survivor in the…

Death Valley No Longer Hottest Spot on Earth, And Arctic Sea Ice Thinning ‘Twice As Fast As Previously Thought’ — Duh!

June 5, 2021

(Illustration: Section of the Dash-E Lut desert, located in Iran. Image found here). Once considerd for a long time the hottest spot on earth, California’s own Death Valley, has now lost the hot seat to…

Judge Overturns California’s AR-15 Ban — States The Rifle ‘Like The Swiss-Army Knife,’ Despite The Pure Fact It Ain’t No Fucking Knife

June 5, 2021

In the spirit of murderous mass shootings, and coming yesterday way-ironically on National Gun Violence Awareness Day — this is asshole-insane: Details via KTLA, updated last night: A federal judge Friday overturned California’s three-decade-old ban…

UFOs: Aliens Or Not — US Intel Can’t Say Other Than ‘Close Encounters’ Of The Baffling Kind

June 4, 2021

Nice drop to a Friday semi-crazy news dump, and who would have guessed UFOs would receive sincere appraisal from government agencies, especially NASA, but we live in all-around strange times. From Wikipedia: ‘In ufology, a…