Journalism, or at least what figures as journalism nowadays, got front-and-center today in another dust-up between the marvelous Jen Psaki, and Fox News‘ Peter Doocy, one tone-deaf dumb-ass: Highlights via Raw Story: White House Press…
Out-of-country experience this Tuesday morning, and a look at the Afghan disaster. As I posted earlier this month, when I started this blog in April 2007, war was the main topic, with conflict-clusterfucks raging in…
Nice and still somewhat-cool this mid-morning Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, though, enjoyable right now, we’re in for some hot-spanking weather later today, and for days into the climate-changing future. Beyond weather and our…
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…
(Illustration: ‘Map by W.H. Payne, Published by Letts, Son & Co. 19–. Geography and Map Division,’ and found here). When I started this bog, ‘Compatible Creatures,’ more than 14 years ago — April 2007 —…
A shitload of news already this Thursday, and we’re just at mid-morning right now. Most of the shit is depressing and there’s some weird mixed-in, though, as a country based on the optics we’ve in…
Another Dad’s Day with good wishes usually passed from children to dads in glad tidings. However, if you’re an asshole who doesn’t understand families and children and the word, ‘happy,’ there’s trouble. This morning, in…
Of course, the over-domineering news story this morning is the Joe Biden/Vladimir Putin meeting at an 18th-century stately home on Switzerland’s Lake Geneva, and according to most of the reports I’ve seen so far, seemed…
Although Joe Biden has called-out T-Rump by name before (albeit just, “this guy“), he went hard and heavy against the orange-turded asshole today in a press conference in Belgium, while also sticking GQPers-feet to the…
Joe Biden is killing it overseas right now — and that’s in a show-biz, Urban Dictionary, ‘performing at the highest level‘ type phrase, and not the Mafia-T-Rump locution — in a so-far, way-successful mission to…