Three Ticks to Midnight

Bright and still this afternoon on California’s north coast, but there’s still a chill in the air. This morning, a symbolic-metaphoric event based on figured-reality — the fabled, iconic Doomsday Clock, created and maintained by the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists since 1947 was moved two minutes closer to the also-iconic-but-frightful…

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Priorities

Hazy and chilly this late afternoon on California’s north coast — sunny and bright for most of the day, however, and supposedly rest of the week. Although President Obama last night chided those who “dodge the evidence” of climate change, a poll released last week from the Pew Research Center indicates a nation’s public policy priorities…

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Warm Flight

Cold and dark this way-too-early Sunday on California’s north coast —  a forecast with a  ‘slight chance of rain,’ though, could warm things up a bit. Right now, temperatures outside in the mid-40s, and maybe some warm sunshine later, way-doable around here as to be accustomed. And once again, all relative (via CNN this morning): Tornadoes…

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Petro Rain

Rain again this early Monday on California’s north coast, feels like it’s raining all over the world. Nearly two months of this wet stuff for most of the time, and the accompanying, gray-gothic clouds, real-gloomy-like if continuous. Yet we need all the rain we can handle, and then some. High-point yesterday, the first day of…

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