Bright sunshine and getting-warm temperatures just past the noon hour Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — the summer routine still playing out early in heat and color. In keeping with the subject line from…
Today 50 years ago was also a Wednesday. In those days I was a senior at the University of Florida and was less than a month away from graduating. Although I had the GI Bill…
Crystal-clear skies empowering still-brighter sunshine this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley. Off the normal topics of shitty T-Rump-related news — his ‘hush money‘ criminal trial numbed the senses today again in NYC; he…
I’ve smoked marijuana for nearly half a century, and I’m a much better person for it, so this is long, long overdue: Marijuana has a shitty history due to asshole history. Americans and Europeans had…
In the crush of the limpid Friday night news dump — the biggest single dump probably was another revealed-escapade in the shitty-ethical lifestyles of SCOTUS — was an example of dip-shitty, hands-on stupidity. Republicans are…
A bit overcast this early-evening Monday here in California’s Central Valley — a kick-off to the holiday season. Thursday is Thanksgiving; from there it’s just a hop-skip-and-a-jump to Christmas and the New Year. Shit moves…
Joe Biden earlier this afternoon: “As I often said during my campaign for President, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended…
In the downer toilet-flush of a Friday news dump, I’ve gone to do a bowl — pipe bowl, that is. Here are some cannabis/marijuana news bits to refresh the mind to what ails it outside…
(Illustration: ‘Eye,’ by MC Escher (1946), a ‘mezzotint,’ and found here.) A stroll through some science items this early-evening Saturday, in an effort go beyond just climate change news on the research/study front — plus…
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…