Musical Anti-Virus
March 7, 2020As the beast of a floating, swirling disease covers the planet in fear, a couple of tunes — the first, a look skyward: And a lyrical strange: This coronavirus is indeed spreading — 442 cases…
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Tropical Forests Losing Ability to be ‘Carbon Sinks’ — New Research
March 4, 2020(Illustration found at National Geographic). A new climate report that’s more than a little ominous — the Guardian this afternoon: Tropical forests are taking up less carbon dioxide from the air, reducing their ability to…
Wednesday: Super Tuesday! Or Whatever
March 4, 2020America is on a threshold of some heavy shit. (Illustration: Elizabeth Warren, found here). Yesterday, my most-favorite Elizabeth Warren went down in sad flames in the Super Tuesday primaries played out over 14 states, and…
Earth’s Beaches are Disappearing Due to Climate Change
March 2, 2020In this era of a malicious-doomed apprehension, another brick in the wall — although the US is low on the lost chart, this new climate-change consequence of losing shoreline is part-n-parcel for the nowadays. Image…
Clive Cussler R.I.P.
February 26, 2020A bit of sad news announced today — Clive Cussler, action-adventure novelist, who sent unflappable fiction hero Dirk Pitt on insane missions all over the globe, died Monday at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He…
Despite All the Shit — ‘Don’t Let It Bring You Down’
February 22, 2020Surprise this morning as I was re-introduced to one of my most-favorite songs from one of my historically most favorite musical artists, Neil Young, and from of my weirdest periods ever, the mid-1970s. I was…
California Drought, Again
February 21, 2020Sunshine is good, but we really need rain to survive. Although our Pacific Northwest neighbors experienced drenching rainfall already this year, California has been pretty-much dry, somehow the storms missing us. Yesterday, the U.S. Drought…
Turmoil American Style
February 19, 2020This country is up shit creek without a paddle — a group of federal judges had set an emergency meeting for today on matters that “could not wait,” but now have decided to wait after…
T-Rump’s Daddy: ‘You Are a King … You Are a Killer … You Are a King’
February 15, 2020In just a few days an obvious fracture in America’s supposed-rock of liberty: (Illustration found here). Brooklyn-based artist Tim O’Brien. who created the above image for a Time cover in June 2018: ‘“This portrait of…
Newsprint Eulogy
February 14, 2020Another sad event in the shifting world of good journalism. (Illustration found here). News gathering has always been a hard row-to-hoe, even in the best of times. Technology switched the goal posts all around, which…