Tag Archives: Politics

PowerPoint Slide Show Obvious, Though, The MSM Is ‘Sleepwalking Past The Coup’

December 13, 2021

First up above all else for a second this Monday morning — a great, big thank-you to tengrain, who wondrously blogs at Mock Paper Scissors, and who while handling Mike’s Blog Round-up this week at…

Public Hearings On Jan. 6 Insurrection/Riot — ‘Shake The Beltway Inertia’ On Actual Seriousness Of T-Rump’s Coup Attempt

December 12, 2021

One despairing item of the T-Rumpian/GQP destruction of American democracy is the assholes are seemingly doing such horrible shit right out in the open — if not in the open at least with minimum cover.…

Media Thrills: Don & Bill’s Flop Tour; Chris Wallace Scampers Away

December 12, 2021

A Sunday morning nutjobs precipice: The obvious national criminal activity from the T-Rump and his half-wit cronies doesn’t even seem to hamper the scam as he remains free as a bird to plunge onto a…

Linking Climate Change To Some Weather Events Are Easier Than Others: ‘Making The Connection To Tornadoes Is The Hardest Of All’

December 11, 2021

Piggy-backing on the tornado story from earlier as the question of climate change enters the picture of wreckage as we see twisters of such extreme, and nearly-rare and unusually violent storms, that wrecked the mid-west…

Twisters Unhinged

December 11, 2021

Another horrendous weather-related story way-topped the news cycle this near mid-day Saturday, and it tags on what we here in California’s Central Valley can expect starting tomorrow and running until mid-week. However, last night/today’s tragedy…

Democracy Dying? — ‘A Moment Of Great Peril And Risk’

November 22, 2021

As America wades into the start of the 2021 holiday season there’s violent weirdness seeping into the festivities — along with a fatal SUV attack at a Wisconsin parade, Kyle Rittenhouse walking and a shitload…

Climate Change At Work Again In The Pacific Northwest: Efforts To Combat World Warming Need Bolstering — ‘A Lot Of Inaction That Gets Disguised As Flexibility, And We’re Past That Time’ And On A Short Road To Catastrophe

November 21, 2021

(Illustration found here). As weather events are more and more being closely tied to climate change and the short shadow from the just-completed COP26 (which was another climate-action cop-out) is still weighing heavily in the…

California COVID Surge Despite High Vaccination Rates: ‘Still In A Risky Situation’

November 20, 2021

Sunshine again this late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — there was deep fog earlier but burned off and we found ourselves with a nice autumn day, with warmish temperatures stoked by cool, wimpish…