The future is not for the faint of heart — or the poor — The term “climate change” is anemic on purpose to allay fears of the general public and diminish its significance. Who pays for the climate change that has become a climate catastrophe? The poor and middle class bear the brunt of physical damage, financial burden, and social hardship of climate catastrophe…

Not a gun show event, a gun buyback event — Had this old gun my stepdad gave me when he passed. The wife and I are moving from Houston to Waco and getting rid of stuff. The gun became an object of ambivalence. After some internet investigation I determined the Colt .38 was actually made in Belgium from inferior steel…

CEOs may actually be an alien invasion Nearly forty percent of American workers are bound by noncompete agreements. They cannot leave their current jobs and go to a similar job elsewhere. Franchises impose yet another restriction. Their employees cannot even move to another location in the same franchise. These are…

Odd that many people haven’t even heard of it — How we got here A timeline of the total ineptitude of Donald Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans is here. He literally threw Obama’s well-funded, well thought out pandemic playbook in the trash to wing it. Enough about Trump. Two hundred thirty-one million Americans…

Hint, it’s something we deal with constantly — Climate change. Out of control end-game capitalism. Supply line issues, peak oil, water, phosphorus. Peak stupidity [but we’ll never run out]. Russia starting a nuclear war. Famine. Super volcano. Asteroid strike. Gamma ray sterilization from a nearby supernova. Let’s see the Republican Party legislate against that birth control. It could…

The times we live in provide them that opportunity — Yes, Biden is an idiot. Yes, Trump is a dangerous idiot. You could point out individual leaders from the past that were worse. Most of them would be sociopaths that ended up directly or indirectly killing millions of people. Trump wasn’t quite that bad, but he’d like another go at…

Anything to do with 101st Airborne doing maneuvers next to Ukrainian border? — Turning off the main highway in Calvert, TX to find a shade tree to park under to eat the fried chicken I bought in Hearne, TX, the guards came down on the railroad crossing for the tracks that parallel the highway. I stopped to watch a trainload of military equipment…

Our civilization is devolving into fragility — Unlike our forebears, we don’t eat a large variety of plants. Whereas we use to forage and eat 6,000 different types of plant species, three quarters (75%) of our modern calories come from nine plants; cane (sugar), beets (mainly sugar), palm (oil), soy, barley, potato, maize, wheat, and rice. “There are…

We are not focusing on the most important technology — One of the leading causes for the impending collapse of civilization is the paltry length of the human lifespan. This was not so much a factor in the collapse of past civilizations. Those died out because of local resources being used up, drought, disease, or overrun by an adjacent or…