July 6th, 2022 ( Read more... )

These seemingly endless and exhausting battles over Abortion Rights and Gun Rights are just distractions. Their purpose IS to 'distract and exhaust' us while Corporations devour The Commons. In the mean time, Accelerating Climate Change is relentlessly bearing down upon us.

~An overview of my general state of mind: A friend talked about 'this shit year being over soon'. I replied, '2022 looks to be even worse. I suspect we have no 'good years' ahead of us for maybe a century and a half...at least, and those humans left will almost certainly not be 'us'. She responded with a weeping emoji.

"The truth is that this culture is insane. When Derrick asks his audiences, “Does anyone here believe that our culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living?” - and he’s asked it for years, all around the country-no one says yes. That means that most people, or at least most people with a beating heart, ( Read more... )

2020 is not uniquely bad. 2021 will be worse and so-on. It’s not God or your horoscope or mercury in Gatorade or any of that mystical bullshit. There’s this thing called *cause and effect.* It’s literally how everything in our entire universe works ( Read more... )

~Back in 2008 I pointed out that the Democrats had been steadily moving Right after Mondale got trounced by Reagan in 1984, and that the GOP in response had itself moved more to the Right and had now found itself painted into a corner way out in Bat Country. Well, over the past four years we have discovered just how very very far out that corner of ( Read more... )

~Here is some brutal irony for y'all: Donald Trump could have be a great president, maybe the greatest since FDR. He has long been a conman and as such could see clearly what a massive con job the present political setup is. He even talked about that back in 2016 when he was running, pointing in the GOP debates that he'd donated to everyone on the ( Read more... )

~I voted for Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004...and then I just stopped. That was Obama. He was being marketed as a ‘Liberal Superman’, but I looked at his actual voting record and saw a ‘moderate Republican’...at least what one would call such ‘back in day’. Now we call them Neo-Liberals or Corporatists. ‘Moderates’ no longer exist in the GOP ( Read more... )

"I'm quite certain that Catastrophic Climate Change will result in the extinction of Baseline Humans [Homo Sapiens Sapiens] aka me and thee over the next century or so, no matter what we do at this point. The Earth's surface is going to become largely uninhabitable for maybe a thousand years, give or take a century ( Read more... )

I can't remember if I've ever expressed this to you directly, but I'm quite certain that Catastrophic Climate Change will result in the extinction of Baseline Humans [Homo Sapiens Sapiens] aka me and thee over the next century or so, no matter what we do at this point. The Earth's surface is going to become largely uninhabitable for maybe a ( Read more... )