Ipsos Poll: Health Care, The Economy — Biggest Problems Facing America

As America stews through a slew of potboiler issues, according to what citizens feel, we’re up shit creek without a paddle. In the latest Ipsos poll out today, just a quarter of respondents think the US is heading in the right direction — 59-percent perceive we’re on the ‘wrong track.’ Of course, in the break-down…

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Saturday Musical Introspective: Songs From Long-Ago Memory

In a non-contextual free-form this Saturday morning, and amongst savage news stories, I’m slipping back some 47 years, back to 1974 — I graduated from the University of Florida that June and spent the summer (when not working the loading dock at the Sears-Roebuck store in Gainesville — my job during the last two years…

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Joe Biden on Texas Abortion Law: ‘Almost Un-American’ — Lyft And Uber Agree

Another Friday afternoon here in California’s Central Valley (yet you could be any-or-everywhere)  and shit still pesters the news cycle today, dump-or-no-dump, mostly due to the horror of Republicans. Beyond being vile, and cruel, Republicans are not real smart. An example is House investigations of the Jan. 6 insurrection/riot — if they’d just okayed the…

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Wild Fires To Wild Flooding — Climate Change In Real Time

Slightly warm at a cool 88-degrees this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, and we’re still clear of smoke from our rampant wildfire war being waged up and down the state. Although there are some big ones burning up north, smoke off the Caldor Fire near Lake Tahoe, about three-and-a-half hours northeast of where…

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Dark Side Of Texas On Women’s Rights

Doomscrolling truly in surfing the news this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — shit, I could be anywhere and would still come across story after fucking story of shit happening, most sorry to say, preventable to some degree. Even a high school shooting tossed in for good measure, just to break the horrid,…

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Joe Biden’s Passion With Afghanistan: ‘I Was Not Extending A Forever Exit’

Joe was pretty straight today: He took charge of the endgame while also noting the contribution of the T-Rump, though, Republicans won’t (literally) hear a word of it — despite the shit from the T-Rump and his asshat asshole Mike Pompeo in setting the stage for the chaos of evacuation, Biden will most-likely carry the…

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It’s Official — US Out Of Afghanistan, And Other Stories

Another boilermaker day — 109-degrees outside right now (late-afternoon Monday in California’s Central Valley) — as we spin through work-week kick-off with shit hitting the fan everywhere. Probably the most-historic event today was an end to an inspired bit of action begun a month shy 20 years ago, but quickly shit the roost, and now…

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Hurricane Ida So Strong It Briefly Changed The Direction Of The Mississippi River — A Preview Of Storms To Come

Another heavy-air scorcher this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley, though, skies today were a little less rusty-brown with the onset of some decent winds which kept the sunshine fairly-bright and a sharper yellow. Supposedly more of the same tomorrow, with a cooling trend (under 100-degrees) expected mid-week. Meanwhile, Hurricane Ida is creating chaos…

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Hurricane Ida Heading For New Orleans — Bad-ass Hurricanes ‘I’ Named

Hot, heavy air this late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley as the temperatures spiral upward — it’s 104-degrees with the view still a rusty-brown submerged in way-faded-yellow sunshine. Any length of time outside is no fun. Listen to me whine — along the north coast of the Gulf of Mexico right now there’s much-greater…

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