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 —…
Tag Archives: Environment
Heat And Fire, And Idiots
July 1, 2021Hardcore story ending badly today pumped by climate change: The town noted above, Lytton, was the centerpiece news-spot this past week after breaking the record for highest temperature ever recorded in Canada three days in…
Michael Mann: ‘That Heat Dome? Yeah, It’s Climate Change’
June 30, 2021As weather/climate change has become a major, near-continous, much-copious series of news stories, this a fortuitous film moment in Kansas: Not much information beyond the video — did find this via Yahoo: ‘In the midst…
‘Mega-Heat Wave’ — Episode Infinitude
June 27, 2021Heat on the edge of scorch again today in Califoria’s Central Valley with triple-digit temperatures accompanied by not a ziltch of wind — in my neck-of the Valley, it’s 100-degrees downtown, yet contrary to what…
‘Destination’ 8: School Of Rock — Rocks!
June 27, 2021Good Sunday morning, and another musical intermission from all the terrible, disquieting bullshit rambling about out in the world, especially in these here United States, instead give a listen to some really good, topnotch covers…
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…
UN Climate-Change Draft Report: ‘The Worse Is Yet To Come,’ And Sooner, Too
June 23, 2021Briefly brushing aside politics for a moment, let’s take another peek at a fully-formed catastrophe that will soon be the headliner — climate change. Although today here in California’s Central Valley is really nice —…
‘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…
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…
Arrival Of ‘The Mega-Heat Wave’ — Part Deux: Seeing Laboratory-Research Models Come Alive, ‘Surreal’
June 18, 2021As the fever-fiery, ‘mega-heat wave‘ continues here in California’s Central Valley and across a large chunk of the western US, the Friday news dump turned out in actuality to be sort an extension of my…