History On Holiday
July 4, 2021A laugh-at horror for the times, dark humor biting in the dark (h/t tweet the great Miss Cellania this morning): Here we are, a celebration Sunday — the fourth of July, Independence Day, the federal…
Tag Archives: Media
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…
‘Destination’ 8: School Of Rock — Rocks!
June 27, 2021Good Sunday morning, and another musical intermission from all the terrible, disquieting bullshit rambling about out in the world, especially in these here United States, instead give a listen to some really good, topnotch covers…
Intel UFO Report Released — One Balloon, The Rest ‘Remain Unexplained’
June 25, 2021Fans of Fox Mulder rejoiced this afternoon as the US Office of National Intelligence released its long-awaited UFO report, though, leaving more conclusions up in the air than identified — the so-called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena…
Condo Collapse And The DOJ Contests Georgia Voting Suppression Laws — One A Horrible Tragedy With Approaching Reprecussions, The Other A Glimmer OF Hope For The Future Of Democracy
June 25, 2021So far this Friday morning there’s at least two major news stories rolling out, both have current significance as well as somewhat longer-range connotations. Oddly, too, the pair also should be of no big surprise. Shock…
Republicans Vote Contrary To ‘The People’
June 23, 2021One of the most-glaring examples of current Republican malfeasance occurred yesterday in the US Senate — Dana Milbank at The Washington Post correctly summed it up: ‘Senate Republicans voted in lockstep on Tuesday to block…
‘Shine’ In A ‘Wind’s Visit’
June 22, 2021A daughter coming to visit today — we haven’t seen each other in nearly a year-and-a-half, a circumstance of the pratfall-paradox of a pandemic. In such, I’ll probably be offline for the immediate-near future, but…