Happy Cinco de Mayo
Assuming, of course, that you are not French. In truth, resisting assault by empire builders is pretty cool, and also very dangerous. Also true is that in many places today…
MOTGR! Music On The Green Revival
My friend and across-the-valley neighbor, Jim Norman, of Taylorsville CA, recently sort of retired after three-plus decades as Music Director for the combined Greenville elementary and high schools. Legendary hereabouts…
More Democracy to Fix Democracy
This grand experiment in self-governance, known globally as democracy, is intended to function via decisions made by the people themselves, as an informed electorate in pursuit of a truly greater…
Nowhere to Lie; Nowhere to Hide
“Be impeccable with your word”… Contemporary politics is a shatterhouse of messaging. Politicians spew nonsense, mostly to raise money to stay in office “to work for the people”, i.e., the…
Routine Varigrade PTSD and Community Resilience
I realized yesterday while driving back from Quincy that everyone around here has PTSD to some degree or other. Frequent round trips through a watershed and forest distorted by the…
We Are Not Paying Attention
The marketing drive for ever increasing “convenience” and overriding concern for the next quarter’s numbers have us failing to track our major, lethal stalker. Platitudes flop about like flounder dying…
Back to Basics ~ What Is Important
This is working out nicely. Facebook attempted to force me to hand over more information, because after thirteen years of posting and nearly five thousand “friends” there, Meta decided my…
From Hidden Persuaders to “Influencers”
The pressure is on… on our minds, actually, and pushed at us via almost every available mass media information provider. We are served the horrors of war next to something…
When “Fire Season” Lasts All Year
(This post should have appeared yesterday, but reality intruded on my intentions.) I live outside of Greenville, California, once upon a time a small mountain town, since incinerated in the…
The Pathetic Whining of Whitely Entitled Males
I don’t think Tucker’s Testicle Tanning Tactics are going to make the point he is trying to raise. No flag pole, no flag. Nobody with sense is going to salute.…