Climate Change Popularity

Climate change is not a popular topic. Fantasy football is. What does a world do when what the world has to do is not popular? OK, let’s get this right. A thirteen year old and his eleven year old brother treat Fantasy Football as popular entertainment appropriate for adults and children alike. Climate change action […]

The Weak and Wicked

This is What Telling the Truth to Citizens Looks Like Gilroy Garlic Festival Performance by Author Good morning from Emeryville. Here on the frontier near the wilds of Berkeley a flying piece of feces has been spied being thrown. A good stinking rotten pile of crap. It is Jeb Bush’s tax cut talk […]

Left Where it Belongs

Life is an Adventure There is wonder in this world. Being with well educated family and friends in Playa del Carmen is one of those wonders. The people coming up are the replacement parts to those on the other side of the journey. They can see. It is as plain as day. Climate change, […]

Saving the Wine Country

“If Napa Valley can’t be saved, nothing can.” We our born into this world. Our eyes see in our youth a mother and father in the foreground. Behind our parents nurturing is the land we find ourselves by the miracle of life to be chanced upon. Here is some piece of knowing something because […]

The Revolution Waits While We Barbecue

Call Me Sentimental… Call it Irresponsible Looks like China is dumping the coal burners in favor of the natural gas burners. Spotted some natural gassers in Gila Bend yesterday. As mentioned THEY ALL looked so last century. This is a two for one. China does a little greenhouse gas remediation and they stop choking […]

Tucson Tumbleweeds

The Dangerous and the Uninformed… What did I learn today? I learned that Gila Bend is about the same as ever. There is a new power generation facility nearby. Natural gas is my guess. Looked decidedly last century. Rolled out of Cathedral City where the night was spent visiting the brains of the operation. […]

My Beautiful Life

What a week. Monday celebrated my wedding anniversary with my wife. She was in LA, I was in Emeryville, California when for all of perhaps 2 minutes and then this happened. We are in Palos Verdes together today. Good for us. Planning on some whale watching from lookout nearby. Trip south down the interstate between […]

How Workers Deserve Less

In the world that I come from workers who are members of unions have some chance of negotiating a better deal with their employers. In another world I come from I have noticed that income inequality has gotten much worse in the last forty years. Yes, I would like to restrain the financial sector from […]

Hat Snatching Owl’s and Brawling Burro Truths…

The owl soared across the street to the limb of a cottonwood. The animal perched, balancing on one foot, with Mr. Garrett Harwood’s hat clasped and dangling in her clutches in the other. Hot Spring Honeymoon Owl attacks joggers and steals their hats… Headline from The Guardian, Reuters in Portland, Oregon I concocted a confrontation […]

That Brilliant Joke Teller Sam Brownback

No fixing stupid, No cure for stubborn… I do own a suit. I am an entertainer. I can say things that aren’t true. In fact in my business I’m not really required to tell the truth. I’m in the business of amusement. If you stand up and raise your hand and volunteer to fly an […]