Category Archives: Politics

‘Global Trends’ — The Next 20 Years Don’t Look So Good

April 8, 2021

If the wordage, ‘Before Times,’ has become a catch-pin for life prior to the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, from all indications it could also come to include the period in the next generation or…

Polls And More Polls — Looking Bad For Republicans

April 7, 2021

(Illustration: ‘Look, We’ve Got To Improve Our Voter-tracking,’ canvas print by Rpbert Mankoff, and found here). In an obvious reaction to the T-Rump and Republicans in general the past four years (especially the last couple),…

Republicans ‘Delusion’ A Way-Danger To America

April 6, 2021

(Illustration: ‘Eye,’ by MC Escher, and found here). A way-enormous chunk of Americans are carrying around solid cases of mental disorder of the highest caliber and are prone to fits of pure fantasy even with…

‘Infrastructure Week’ — For Real This Time!

April 4, 2021

Anyone who does any driving — Before Times and the COVID pandemic, of course — can see our roadways, bridges and assorted, related structures are shot-to-shit and have been in crappy-dangerous condition for a long…

Climate Change And Early-Blooming Cherry Blossoms

April 3, 2021

(Illustration: ‘Cherry Tree Blossoms in Washington DC,’ by Donna Tuten, and found here). In the onslaught of frightful items on the agenda of the nowadays, from COVID to racism to economic woes, the huge, massive…

‘Gaetzgate’ Is The Republican Form In The T-Rump Era — Along With Vote Suppression And Guns

April 1, 2021

Warm-bordering-on-hot this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, with deep, yellow sunshine adding to the sense of heat — summer’s coming way-soon and it’s going to be long and hard. In the news, Republicans…