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  January 2022 is over. Good riddance. I don't care much for January. My birthday is in January. Doesn't matter. Freaking dang cold and now we get smog every damn day. Remember how Los Angeles looked back in the late 60's and early 70's? Well, you move that mess north and a snidge east and there you go. The Salt Lake Valley early twentieth century. You can quite literally cut the air with a knife. I suppose you'd probably be able to eat a slice of the smog but you'd need catsup and lots of salt. Great Salt Lake salt. That's where Morton's salt comes from. If you drive west from Salt Lake City about thirty miles you can see the Morton Salt factory. Yup, right there for all a world to see. The salt factory isn't really all to scenic but there it is. So the wondrously lame 'stupid bowl' is set and there'll be all new and really pricey commercials to watch if you happen to be horribly bored and you're trapped inside your home. If you happ...

  Football's Tommy 'terrific' Brady is retiring. Or he isn't retiring. Or he's seems to be having trouble making that life changing decision. Or he isn't. Reports in the media are confusing at best. Tommy 'terrific's' daddy-o insists that Mr. 'Terrific' isn't retiring. But then ESPN insists that the wonder boy IS retiring. Unofficially, ESPN is the "official" voice of the NFL. Just ask Boomer Berman. Berman likes to refer to hisself as "the swami." So why all of a sudden is there all manner of interest in what Mr. 'Terrific' might be gonna do? Well...because. Because the NFL likes to hype up football games and stir reverence for the NFL gods of Sunday. Did you know that you can buy just about all if not parts of NFL god-dom? Well you most certainly can. If you've a mind to pay for such a squander. The NFL crap does not come cheap. No it does not. However, there's football "conference championship...

War with Russia has been put on hold...for two weeks. I suppose any reprieve is a good reprieve. However brief that reprieve might be. The U.S. military insists that a war with Russia would be "horrific." Gosh really? The U.S. military always has a good bead on all things war related. Well except when it came to Vietnam. Probably the Korean conflict too. Did you know that 'technically' the U.S. is still at war with North Korea? That is most certainly true. The Ukrainian government spoke up and asked the West to stop provoking the Russians. Now why would the Ukrainian government do that? Other than the glaringly obvious fact that any war with Russia would be fought for the most part in the Ukraine. So much for those Ukraine girls. Insert about Ukraine girls is courtesy of the Beatles. Anyway, we can all breathe a little easier for the next two weeks. The two weeks reprieve is so "diplomats can find a solution to the crisis." Sure they will. Di...

  Today is 'good' on account of this is the last Friday in January. January is finishing off with a damnably frigid blast of winter. Brrr! America's east coast is due to get slammed with a 'nor'easter'. Whatever in hell that's supposed to mean. Out here and behind the Zion Curtain it will be just another day with the illusion of sunshine mixed with an unhealthy dose of smog. The local weather mavens insist that the inversion is simply haze. That is of course abject bullshit. Smog fills our valley and washes back and forth like thick soup in a shallow bowl. Stinks too. There is some hope though, February is just a few days away and we'll have us a 'groundhog day' and won't that be special. Well of course it will. Groundhog Day is always special. Unless of course it snows or blizzards or, hmmm ... there might not be much difference between a snowstorm and a blizzard. Doesn't really matter much. Wherever you may happen to reside, the...

  Well January is just about finito. February is next and if you happen to follow Chinese astrology, on the next new moon we'll have us the 'year of the tiger'. Not the 'eye of the tiger' but the 'year of the tiger'. Alrighty then. I'm not certain as to what the 'year of the tiger' might mean. Speculation would indicate that the 'year of the tiger' will bring on the damnable advent of war. War children, is just a shot away. There's the Ukraine crap-o-la and the Middle East could blow at the drop of a hat. Pakistan versus India. India versus China. North Korea versus the entire freaking Planet. Venezuela is pissed at the U.S. and Brazil. Argentina is pissed at the British. Argentina versus England would be one of those annoying long distance conflicts fought mostly with proxies. Well and Boris Johnson could use a pending war with Argentina as a pretext to skip out on having to resign as Prime Minister. Johnson got his ass caught lying ...

  So I'd just crawled out of bed on this fine morning when the phone rang. Barely 07:00 hours for hell sakes. Now I'm not exactly a pleasant soul first thing in the morn. Brain fog and my eyes won't focus. Anyway I answered ringing phone and some tele-dumb ass barely understandable woman starts off with a good morning prattle. The woman can't be made to speak clearly and gad dang it if that isn't about annoying as hell. Well I rudely ask the woman what she wants and I want to know what the fuck she thinks she's doing calling at 07:00 hours on a humpday first thing in the freaking morning. Click! Conversation is ended. Simple as that. She hung up which by all accounts was a good thing. She really didn't want to hear what would come next. Crude yes. Vulgar yes. Socially unacceptable yes. I don't fucking care. If some asshole is stupid enough to call the house at 07:00 hours on ANY morning, well, they'll get what they get. Plain and simple as that. Piss...

  "If we can make a space station fly, we can save the Planet." Thus spake astronaut Thomas Pesquet. The guy has been to space so, he can say that. Doesn't make his statement true, but he can speculate. Evidently our Planet still looks almost like it used to look. At least from space. I applaud Mr. Pesquet's optimism. I don't share his optimism but his statement holds a modicum of hope. On the ground however is a completely different narrative. Humanity lives on a Planet thoroughly trashed by...us. Plastic floats in huge rafts across our oceans. Plastic drifts on the winds. Discarded cans are ubiquitous. Paper blows around and those annoying plastic bags you get at the store to put your food stuffs in lay around on the ground blowing hither and yon for virtually ever. Ever would be a dang long time. So is all the garbage humanity has managed to discard without a thought. So like a drunken homeless junkie, humanity rolls about in filth and hasn't a second thoug...