this ultra grey was about to ask that..... thanks!

of all the disturbing images that Cormac McCarthy created in The Road, his portrayal of a near sterile grey ocean was the one that haunts me.... 

exactly! When I first moved West many decades back - the USDA was all about planting north side evergreens for blowing snow and North Wind control....but a dozen years ago I saw how those winters no longer hit us like they had in the past and now it was getting damn HOT round here- so I began planting deciduous on all…

Although there is no specific “blame” to be assigned here [other than systemic I suppose] there is an easy top down fix. Just require every manufacturer of ,well, pretty much everything , to be responsible for their product from its birth to its death. Yeah maybe we would have to forgo the 123 choices of mustard but…

the goose is well and truly cooked. We had every ability to stop this right about the time [1977] exxon got that first in house report on what fossil fuel use would do to the climate . But when the system depends on “maximizing shareholder value” regardless of the larger societal cost, then there is zero incentive to…

yep- simply a dopamine response to novelty.... as in most mammals and all apes.....

Gotta admit-  it beats the “out of idle curiosity” theory.....

like any discussion of where “my freedom ends and your nose begins” , this issue will have plenty of spectrum to cover. I gave booze up specifically because the harm outweighed the benefits -but I do think our culture is pretty cavalier about the harm alcohol does- [the UK cancer research indicates that drinking…

“dumb”? hmmm- everything you have taken for granted in your ‘defense’ has not a grain of scientific necessity. You are merely arguing from an unproven supposition that without some a priori fantasy quest , science could not come up with any of those vague “successes” . An orbital platform could just as easily [and…

might be time to ponder the “why” of looking for life beyond earth. Its a very expensive proposition with no direct benefit. It is not gonna be like we exchange phone numbers .....I am beginning to suspect that it might be a holdover from “if we find any other life out there it , then all your Holy Bible crap is null”…

I tried to warn you about the Lizzard People!!! Who’s laughing now Shahron....

it was spring . 1972. The Pinto had so far only pushed a strut thru the frame somewhere. Which was probably fair in the karmic sense of the word as this trip West had begun in true ode-to-Gonzo fashion. Big hit of mescaline each in Asheville. Somehow living thru Nashville but into a setting sun that meant someone had…

yeah- I confess I wanted to jump in with all the old folks driving vs Autonomous humor .... but your article IS very germane re the reality of self driving - where are the liability boundaries? Is that a baby or a dog or an alligator on the road? Won’t someone think of the squirrels? If there’s a hurricane evacuation…

yeah- my thought too. You really “slept” through all that did ya now?  Musta been quite tired ya were....

I had a mother-in-law who was a decidedly Not Nice Person. She saw me turning a 5' rat snake loose in the garden and from then on would not leave her RV after dark.....my wife and I were giddy. Win/win

ugh- long ago Click n Clack asked for rodent solutions. Zero effective results. Here in the SW USA we get periodic waves of infestations- i’ve seen devout Buddhist folk lining up for poisons n traps at the local hardware.....I never do the poison but have near tamed a few ravens because of all the mouse carcasses I…

4d finish nail to first find the stud the electrical box is nailed to [pull the outlet cover first] - remember...plenty of homes are framed 24" On Center. I use that same 4d nail to search right on top of the base trim . Strong magnets work much better than “stud finders”....

My wife and I each read that book whilst in the midst of one of the most hell flu viruses we ever experienced.... young, poor and rural , the only “treatment” we conjured up was to drink moonshine and smoke up NC’s finest home grown.....and maintain just enough lucidity to continue reading the Stand.....and become…

hmm lets see- “The measurement is the highest seasonal peak recorded in 61 years of observations on top of Hawaii’s largest volcano and the seventh consecutive year of steep global increases in concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2),” NOAA said in a statement on Tuesday.

and i cannot turn off my car while it is in a gear other than ‘park’ with my key.....i submit the ‘fob’ as just one more glorious example of “no- the fucking ‘free market’ has pretty much nothing to do with customer ‘demand’ so STFU”......