Sign Of The Time
December 28, 2021In this time of madness, a cadence of the measure (h/t Miss Cellania): (Illustration found here). A decent foible of the horrid nowadays is showing empathy (without the screaming and crying) — there’s a lot…
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Climate Change Rehearsal In Real Time
December 27, 2021Wet and chilly this early-evening Monday here in California’s Central Valley as winter storms pound the state, dumping heavy rain on the flatlands and a shitload of snow in the mountains and foothills — major…
Republican Art Of Playing The Victim — ‘Used To Justify The Underlying Bullying Behaviors’
December 27, 2021One terrible, nasty aspect of how Republicans work their lifestyles upon the rest of us is through the pathetic and asinine use of crowing victimhood whenever they’re called on something that’s obviously shitty and there’s…
T-Rump Junior And MAGA Ruthlessness
December 26, 2021Even in the fading light this early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley and the future of our current American life is on the line, starting next year. In that regard, good interview this afternoon…
In Order To Handle Climate Change Impacts A New Approach To The Concept Of ‘Human Flourishing” Is Way-Overdue
December 25, 2021Raining this late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley, a wet holiday experienced by a lot of Americans today — rain and snow for a big chuck of the country, but in some parts are…
‘Shine’ Time
December 25, 2021A supposedly special day despite reality — what will I find: I’m gonna let it shine I’m gonna let it shine Heaven’s little light gonna shine on me Hey, yeah, hey, yeah Heaven’s little light…
A Smile Story
December 24, 2021Already a seen thing by just about everybody, but it’s way appropriate: Story/background narrative via The Daily Mail this morning: A Washington DC elementary school teacher who played basketball in college gave her third-grade students…
T-Rump Lost The Election — Needs A Jail Cell
December 23, 2021Is the T-Rump going under or what? Time will not tell: Did the T-Rump just misspeak as he has tons of times before? Or it’s the itch of keeping a lid on such a most-prominent…
Joan Didion — R.I.P.
December 23, 2021In the early 1990s, during the opening phase of my life-altering divorce, I took a nighttime college course in literary marketing — manuscript devices/ideas, finding agents, trolling for publishers, whatnot — and although the course…
‘Idiots’
December 22, 2021Overcast and cold this early Wednesday evening here in California’s Central Valley — a rainy out-of-doors, too. We do feel like it’s raining all over the world, especially among the imbecilic. An example of knowing…