Now a day after the televised first hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection/riot, all the data is in and it appears the session last night was a media success. All…
(Illustration: ‘John Dean nears the end of reading his 245-page prepared statement before the Senate Watergate Committee in Washington, D.C., on June 25, 1973′ — image found here). In context of this month’s 50th anniversary…
(Illustration: Art by Matteo Farinella, written by Jeremy Deaton, and found here). Once again putting aside guns and war and nasty Republican asshole politics this early-evening Saturday here in California’s Central Valley, maybe focus for…
A gleeful note in the news cycle this Friday morning — maybe the start of something good: Details/background via The Washington Post a short while ago: Navarro, who was a trade adviser to President Donald…
(Illustration: Various galaxies of the Virgo Supercluster, grouped and clustered together, and found here). Beyond mass shootings and war crimes, how about a little way-out space shit this Monday morning to loose the bonds of…
Overcast and breezy but still hot as heck this early-evening Thursday here in California’s Central Valley. Away from the InterWebs for a good while today, I didn’t catch the initial reports of a law enforcement…
Boiling-hot outside this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — reportedly 108-degrees just before 6 p.m. PDT — and it’s still days away from official summer. Shit-already-on-a-overheated-stick. In the wake of the massacre yesterday…
End of another weekend, and close to the end of a month, plus, close to the heat of summer — not so bad outside this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley, warmish, but breezy…
(Illustration out front: ‘The Three Amigos,’ and found here). An idiot remains an idiot despite the whitewash, and even with the incense burning tattering holes in history books. When this blog first appeared 15 years…
As we approach the midterms, the biggest obstacle in the way of democracy being upheld is the real rule of journalism — tell the actual, f*cking truth. A nifty, right-on piece directed at the root…