Famous Last Words
September 10, 2014Bright and way-sunny this Wednesday morning here on California’s north coast — rare type of wake-up, but due to my sleeping problems, I slept until well after sunrise and missed the dawn coming up like…
Tag Archives: History
Pardon My Ass!
September 8, 2014In the grand slush of news lately, I’d overlooked today’s 40-year anniversary — Gerald Ford’s forgive-and-forget of Dick Nixon. And nearly 40 years later, President Obama did just about the same thing with George Jr.…
Tone-Deaf
September 7, 2014Last week, a federal judge in New Orleans ruled the 2010 Deepwater Horizon debacle was the result of BP’s “willful misconduct” and “gross negligence.” And can we hear a…’Duh!’ Yet fit to be tied with their…
Poor the Poor
September 3, 2014Almost a full-sun sunrise this Wednesday morning on California’s north coast, but at the last second, ground fog with an overcast cloud layer muted the air into a thin gray haze. Shucks! I can’t remember…
Fire in the Forests of Mars
September 2, 2014Fog-bound this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, but just a wee-bit to the east are huge chunks of deep-growth forests, dry and waterless, and in some places, on fire. A moist shoreline and a…
Words
August 26, 2014A huge, banner head at the top of HuffPost this afternoon quickly snapped at me — ‘Here…Human-caused…Already dangerous…Likely irreversible,’ and with that last word knew it had something to do with climate change. And sure…
Sleep Shaking
August 26, 2014Fog and chilly here on California’s north coast this early Tuesday as the world stumbles on through the work week. Typical summer fare for the area, usually sunshine and a brisk afternoon wind to follow…
Ground, Rumble, Ground…
August 24, 2014A way-ordinary, routine-acting morning-fog environment for here on California’s north coast, but just three/four hours south, Sunday came early with a bang for the graveyard shift: Erica Gregory, who was brewing coffee while working by…
Land of No Water
August 23, 2014Foggy and quiet this early Saturday on California’s north coast and the water war continues — it’s a conflict between us drinking H2O and not. The well-known and infamous drought has plagued the Western US…
‘Oh My God, They Done Killed This Man’
August 21, 2014Overcast with a bit of ground fog this early Thursday morning on California’s north coast and the air is still and quiet — nice but rare nowadays. The horror in Missouri spills blood everywhere. One…