‘Severe Narcissistic Disturbances’

Cloudy, foggy, smokey here on California’s north coast this Tuesday evening — all the characteristics of the state right now, the natural tempered with some terrifying wildfires raging both north and south. Amazing how and where smoke can travel… A crazed wildfire of horror in DC — Rolling Stone talked to some mental health professionals…

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Go, Go Vote!

Way-appropriate emotional point on this eve of the big-bang Ballot Day:: Just the gut feeling — you want to feel optimistic, you want to lean-into the wondrous polls calling for a Blue Wave, but the anguish-horror of failure — if Republicans keep the House, and Senate, or even if the midterm is a return to…

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Tropical Forests CO2 ‘Source’ — Alarming Study

(Illustration found here). Even among the weird weather here on California’s north coast, a report this morning a bellwether/watershed story — via the Guardian: The world’s tropical forests are so degraded they have become a source rather than a sink of carbon emissions, according to a new study that highlights the urgent need to protect…

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Failed ‘Mimic’ and the Nuclear Codes

Orange-tainted air this early evening Monday, Labor Day, here on California’s north coast, and still fairly warm. Weird weather continued today, heat persisting, even shrouded in a fog-like overcast of low-clouds infected with smoke off forest fires all over the Northwest — two biggies, one in Siskiyou County, another over in Trinity County, is fueling…

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Harvey Horror: Chem Calamity

(Illustration found here). Beyond the mournful images of Hurricane Harvey’s staggering-impact on southeast Texas, the narrative could spin into a scenario of the worse kind of nightmare. Along the coast are a way-shitload of chemical plants now underwater, or near-about, and possible explosive events that could be really, really bad. Charles P. Pierce at Esquire this…

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Climate-Change Heat — ‘Windows’ of ‘Maybe’

Sunshine and warmth again this Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast — we’re sitting near 70-degrees here close to 5 o’clock, forecast for the high-70s along the shoreline for tomorrow and Thursday. Sweet here, but way-hot-shitty just slightly eastward from the beach — an example of our future. Research from the University of Colorado, published yesterday: Even…

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‘Madman With Nuclear Weapons

Near-cloudless skies creating a bright late-afternoon Wednesday here on California’s north coast, an environmental tonic to the ugly out yonder in the world. Out there, a flashback exemplifying the ludicrous-horror of the T-Rump — released today transcript of a telephone conversation last month between our idiot-child POTUS, and one of the most-heinous guys on earth…

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Terror in ‘A Comedy of Errors’

Warm and sunny this early evening Tuesday on California’s north coast — we continue our good-weather phase, with some high temperatures forecast for the end of this week. I like it… Beyond the web of horror-shit on the T-Rump, just for this particular day, this from James Warren at Vanity Fair this afternoon scoops the nightmare…

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