Afghan Agony
July 2, 2021(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 —…
Category Archives: Media
US House Okays Select Committee On Capitol-Building Attack (Update) — NYT Publishes ‘Visual’ Horror Video Of Assualt
June 30, 2021Update: 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…
Science Subjects: Dementia; Narcissism in US Presidents
June 29, 2021Outside the normal news cycle this afternoon, a couple of interesting science/health items caught my eye earlier as I was close-to-normal-constantly Doomscrolling the InterWebs, seeing them created a curiosity as one could apply to me…
COVID Delta Variant Creating ‘A Pandemic Of Unvaccinated People’
June 29, 2021Starting 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…
Pelosi Launches Select Committee To Investigate Capitol Insurrection/Riot
June 28, 2021The nasty, dangerous and anti-American scene at the US Capitol earlier this year will always be most-likely one odd bit of national history — the off-tune is reality. Live TV and video later showed a…
Intel UFO Report Released — One Balloon, The Rest ‘Remain Unexplained’
June 25, 2021Fans of Fox Mulder rejoiced this afternoon as the US Office of National Intelligence released its long-awaited UFO report, though, leaving more conclusions up in the air than identified — the so-called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena…
Republicans Vote Contrary To ‘The People’
June 23, 2021One of the most-glaring examples of current Republican malfeasance occurred yesterday in the US Senate — Dana Milbank at The Washington Post correctly summed it up: ‘Senate Republicans voted in lockstep on Tuesday to block…
‘Shine’ In A ‘Wind’s Visit’
June 22, 2021A daughter coming to visit today — we haven’t seen each other in nearly a year-and-a-half, a circumstance of the pratfall-paradox of a pandemic. In such, I’ll probably be offline for the immediate-near future, but…
MAGA Hatters Still Believe ‘Despicable’ T-Rump
June 21, 2021Idiots outside of an institution have a shitload of problems, reality being one of them, and with the case of T-Rump and his followers, it’s part of the Big Lie: Standing story of our times…
Solstice Summer — ‘Walking On The sidewalk, Hotter Than A Match Head’
June 20, 2021Today is a two-pronged special day — from The Old Farmer’s Almanac last week: ‘The June solstice occurs on Sunday, June 20, 2021, at 11:32 P.M. EDT. In 2021, it so happens that the solstice…