Archive for July, 2023

History

There’s a point in time, I guess, where history becomes educated conjecture rather than chronicled reportage.  But, even far past that demarcation, the reliability of studied archaeological and anthropological artifacts is deemed to be scholarly, accepted gospel.  Advances in carbon dating and the visual forensics of enhanced photogrammetry have allowed…

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WTF?

We’re done, right?  I mean, democracy and equality as a bold concept of governance.  247 years and we’re barely trying to make it work?  30 maybe 40% of us, Trump-huggers, want to tear it all down…not with the slightest clue of what they want, but with the indoctrinated, cultish determination…

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Unkind

I struggle with the complexities of human behavior.  There are nearly 8 billion of us milling around our planet…800,000,000 in extreme poverty, (less than $2.15/day), another 800,000,000 in abject poverty, (around $5/day), 100 million refugees displaced by war and famine and ethnic cruelty and an anthropological guesstimate that 4 billion…

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Hot!

This week, global temperature watchers registered the four hottest days EVER, since around 1880 when recording such things crossed someone’s mind.  These hottest-ever days were not by slight, incrementally expected variations, but by .5º on Tuesday, .8º on Wednesday and Thursday and almost 1º on Friday.  This is meteorologically scary…

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Supremes

Anyone who pledges allegiance to our flag must change the last four words to “…and injustice for some.”  My heart is broken by the creeping ooze of the worst of us, dastardly gaming the system in a coup that has given the final words on kindness, racism and misogyny to…

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