California and Fossil Fuel: All Hail Mammon!
Top photo by Tim Forkes In the last dozen or more years my primary focus, number one issue, has been the climate and our environment. Just a couple months ago the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officially declared the ivory-billed […]
California and Fossil Fuel: All Hail Mammon!
By Tim Forkes
Top photo by Tim Forkes In the last dozen or more years my primary focus, number one issue, has been the climate and our environment. Just a couple months ago the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officially declared the ivory-billed […]
Halloween Past and Maybe the Future?
Top illustration by Tim Forkes Years ago I wrote this little diddy about Halloween being one of my favorite holidays — for all the wrong reasons. It’s been updated, with
Take a Lesson From Stevie
Top screenshot of Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante is from a YouTube Video ( https://youtu.be/Iw6IqLGXjBU ) What I would rather be doing is binging on the final three seasons of The
Nuclear Power is Not Clean Energy
Top Illustration by Tim Forkes When I tell people we should stop using nuclear energy, close down our nuclear energy plants and eventually find different ways to fuel our nuclear
Gen. Mark Milley: Villain or Hero?
Top photo is a YouTube screenshot: https://youtu.be/8OrXVFG1L7I I was feeling a bit of whimsy this morning, nostalgia really, for the halcyon days past when we had a president we loved to
Twenty Years Gone: 9/11
Top illustration by Tim Forkes Has it been 20 years? September 11, 2001. The world changed for those of us in the United States. Maybe it did for our European
Thank the Unions for Labor Day
Top photo by Tim Forkes Labor Day — Does anybody care? The holiday was created by labor unions to commemorate the men and women who give their blood and sweat
Vote ‘No’ on the Recall, Reject the Nut Bars
Photo courtesy of Gavin Newsom campaign In 1911 California added Proposition 8, the Recall of Elected Officials Amendment to the upcoming election. A majority of Californians voted “Yes” to add
Afghanistan Nightmare Comes to the Inevitable End
Top illustration by Tim Forkes Afghanistan has fallen under the complete control of the Taliban. That was pretty fast. Eleven days, according to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen.
Greenville burns as the Climate Crisis Rages Around the World
Top photo of the King Tide by Tim Forkes The Dixie Fire in Northern California, Plumas County in particular, burned down an historic town and it barely made a blip
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