It’s All Relative…
Fun fact: I’m related to United States president Ulysses S. Grant! In high-school history class, we were taught that he was one of the most (if not the most) openly …
Category: Wanderings
Ain’t Bread Until It’s Out of the Oven
I just realized my (male / mostly irrelevant) stance on the abortion debate. Them: “IT’S A HUMAN LIFE!!! AND YOU CAN’T CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE!!!” Me: “And, with the same reasoning, …
Oh THERE you are, racists!
Like this is anything new… I have a friend who is part of what is termed a ‘marginalized’ culture (i.e. it aint’ ‘white’ European-based). She posts a cool article that …
An Activist and Friend Passes
This weekend I found out that a friend, Mitzi (pictured above next to her husband, Jonathan on the left and mutual friend Bruce on the right) passed on, attended by …
The Resistance Playbook
Be careful when evaluating the CPAC conference going on now or Fox news. And by careful, I mean take this as an -extreme- warning. The stuff they are talking about …
Future Tech: Carbon Mushrooms
One of those weird things that comes to mind: The San Fernando has a particular kind of weather, that tends to wrap around it and curl, like a snake, coupled …
Matter of Long Term Poisoning
So… could a test for nicotine presence in the system be able to also detect neonicotinoids at biologically active levels? Does anyone know how much neonicotinoids or nicotine concentrate in …
On the “Plight” of the Poor
Had a friend bring up that old argument of “if we give poor people more $$, they just end up lazy or still poor, so let’s give them training!” I …
Wee Bit of Climate Change?
So… Thunder. Thunder in the San Fernando Valley, to my admittedly flawed and overly dramatic memory, has always been a krak-BOOM (rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble) thing. Today, for the …
Look! Puppets!
Hello all you folks working on social change! I posted this to a sub-comment on an online thread and wanted to repost it here. There are both trolls and paid …