Down in ‘Murrica’s DownUnder (oh, Florida) a parentless, jobless, spouseless 16-year-old girl who was mature enough to petition the court for an abortion was denied permission to get one because she wasn’t sufficiently mature to make the decision to terminate her pregnancy. Making her a mom seems to be the right call. The wizened court …
Post-Reality World
School’s back in session. Wat joy Spent a ridiculous amount of cash on stuff for theKid and theKid deserves every cent spent. We live in a place with a public school located across the street … like, walking in house shoes and PJs close. But. It’s public. And every weekday morning around 8 and afternoon …
Eternally Safe
Didja see Death Valley flooded? Had eleventy-hunnert inches of rain fall in 42 seconds or whatever. Nice. It’s also 500 degrees in India, Pakistan, and the Middle East, soon to become real estate that is incompatible with human life. Read somewhere that we (humans we) can only tolerate a max temp of 120° F / …
Can’t Afford v Can’t Pay
Methinks I should fully acknowledge that without Half and steady income, homelessness (houselessness? unhousedness?) is a very real possibility. There was some statistic somewhere that claimed nearly half of Americans are a single paycheck away from the street. Really? Just one? Not quite there yet … got some assets to pawn, some goods to hock, …
Is It Though? Is It Really?
Having a bit of existential ennui, thought I might share. Of late, seems that the world has lost its mind a bit more than usual, or perhaps — after 200 years — modern civilization is just in a rapid state of mental decline. Read an article recently (I should stop doing that) about pregnant women …
Single Payer Doomsdayer
This is great! I love on this so hard. Apparently, the US Senator from WVA managed to squash the first real legislation from Congress that might — stress: might — have made a difference in how humans treat the only planet they can live on en masse. Nice. This guy gets more $$$ from selfish …
Infotainment
Not a big fan of the news these days. Too much opinion, not enough fact. And it’s sad that it’s both sides … and that there are even sides, I mean, what happened, happened, right? Not necessarily. Faux News claims the treasonous insurrection of Jan 6th was just ‘Murricans exercising their rights to “Stop the …
Born Debtor
Just recently theKid told me I smelled “sus.” I have no idea what that means. That’s not entirely true … word comprehension is important, and “sus” is modern-speak for “suspicious” … as in Among Us “sus.” See, I’m hip. I’m down. I’m funky. Extremely so, apparently (heh). Anyhoo theKid’s comment provoked a thought … about …
OK, so …
Question: Wasn’t there, like, a pipeline planned to run from Canada to Mexico through ‘Murrica’s breadbasket, protested heavily by the Tribes, until Biden shut down the whole thing? Ended up costing the fuel companies boo-coo (beaucoup to You) bucks? And then gas/everything prices skyrocketed for no discernible reason during his first (last? We can only …
Soil & Water
I knew I didn’t need to worry about it! Debt concerns are so cliché passé … Found a fun little sciencey fact …in about, oh say, 60 years the human population will starve to death, or turn Soylent Green, because the dirt in which we grow our food won’t have enough nutrients in it to …