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: History
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…
News To Make You Scream!
July 1, 2021A shitload of news already this Thursday, and we’re just at mid-morning right now. Most of the shit is depressing and there’s some weird mixed-in, though, as a country based on the optics we’ve in…
US House Okays Select Committee On Capitol-Building Attack (Update) — NYT Publishes ‘Visual’ Horror Video Of Assualt
June 30, 2021Update: A new, unvarnished video view of the Capitol-building attack from The New Times this afternoon — main written detail: The work of understanding Jan. 6 has been hard enough without this barrage of disinformation…
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…
Science Subjects: Dementia; Narcissism in US Presidents
June 29, 2021Outside the normal news cycle this afternoon, a couple of interesting science/health items caught my eye earlier as I was close-to-normal-constantly Doomscrolling the InterWebs, seeing them created a curiosity as one could apply to me…
COVID Delta Variant Creating ‘A Pandemic Of Unvaccinated People’
June 29, 2021Starting to get warmer this mid-morning Tuesday here in Califoria’s Central Valley — we’re temp-wise forecast for triple-figures again by mid-afternoon, but the bad heat seems past us, for right now. Low-90s reportedly rest of…
Pelosi Launches Select Committee To Investigate Capitol Insurrection/Riot
June 28, 2021The nasty, dangerous and anti-American scene at the US Capitol earlier this year will always be most-likely one odd bit of national history — the off-tune is reality. Live TV and video later showed a…
Polling: America’s Divide Is An ‘Asymmetric Polarization’ Based On T-Rump-Induced Fantasy
June 28, 2021Despite what your eyes and ears tell you, a shitload of Americans are just plain brain-fucked as the attack last January on the US Capitol building has gone from an insurrection/riot to a tourist walk…
‘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…