I begin to fear our entire summer will be this unrelenting heat. I am a Southerner, and the heat is right and natural to me, but this seems like something else. I suspect that last year the globe reached that much watched for tipping point, and this is the other side. A deadly Category 5 hurricane in the Gulf at the beginning of July; never before ( Read more... )

Often, I think, Fuck, the human race is getting even stupider. But that's not true. What is true is that there are far more people than when I first formed my opinion about how stupid is the human race, as a whole, and - this is the part that truly matters - we are now being treated to the stupidity of an outrageously pointless number of people. ( Read more... )

The rain has gone, and left behind a blustery day. I dislike the gusting noise of the wind. For me, it is very near to the sound of insanity.

I am becoming reluctant to continue this journal. I'm not entirely sure why. It's become a valuable (valuable to me) means of keeping up with any number of things, and, also, I've come to rely upon it as a ( Read more... )

Much, much too late to be posting anything. But here I am. A couple of people on my friends list have linked to this Salon.com article, "An open apology to boomers everywhere," by Heather Havrilesky. And I wanted to post the link, as well ( Read more... )

It has been at least two years since I've been anything near this ill. Probably nearer four years. I fear I no longer have the hang of it. I'm out of practice. But this germ, it means to teach me a thing or two, to remind me, as it were ( Read more... )