No Time for Time
August 28, 2011(Illustration of Francisco Goya’s ‘Disaster of War‘ found here). US peoples — and for the final matter — all the world’s peoples stand not-so-nimbly on the edge of a strange and nefarious, swiftly-shifting, era in…
Tag Archives: Environment
GOP — ‘Seriously Haywire’
August 26, 2011Even as natural disasters confront the US at every turn — this morning Hurricane Irene is bearing down on the Eastern Seaboard, where a lot of folks are still recovering from an near-unprecedented earthquake a…
Aftershock And An Exercise in Horror
August 25, 2011Early Wednesday, a sharp 4.5 aftershock hit about five miles from the epicenter of Tuesday’s earthquake, which rattled the whole US eastern seaboard and has put people on edge. Via Twitter this morning: visionAri_style 1:30am:…
Seismic Eastward!
August 24, 2011Turn about is fair play, huh? Indeed, as the US East Coast experienced a dose of western-style living yesterday with a 5.8-magnitude earthquake, which struck about 40 miles northwest of Richmond, Virginia, and was felt…
Climate for Crazies
August 19, 2011Even as quick downloads of extreme weather have become the ‘new normal‘ in the US — baseball-size hail yesterday in Nebraska, and drought conditions have spread to 12 percent of the country — and even…
GOP Storm-Drains The EPA
August 18, 2011Even as big chunks of planet earth have undergone some extreme weather recently — right now there’s a climate-change-influenced furnace blistering the US heartland — some dumb-ass, and way-dangerous people have continued to deny the…
Baked Brains — Way Beyond The Deep End
August 15, 2011Left my post for just a week and imbecilic chaos ensues. As if in a fevered nightmare, the peoples of the world, and especially US peoples have taken complete leave of any known sense, and…
Goin’ on Holiday
August 8, 2011Today starts the first official vacation I’ve had in years — the last a near-decade ago while working for a newspaper — and the feeling is already weird. I’ll not be posting again until most-likely…
Awash
August 6, 2011In a time so awash in dramatic events, especially the last couple of weeks and the debt ceiling/financial markets bombast — worse Wall Street week in three years, the US downgraded from AAA to AA+…
A Delusion of Permanence
August 4, 2011One of the most-profound problems of humankind is the inability to see no tomorrow — or at least a tomorrow so unlike today. Life continues burns in the soul. Not so fast there, Sherlock. Humanity…