Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 30, 2023

ALL news is OLD news.

“Gloom and misery everywhere, Stormy Weather, Just can’t get my poor old self together…..” Ethel Waters

Your memory must be fading, Arlo. It’s pretty much business as usual.

That was the weather.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeI5ke0BENw

Looks like I picked the wrong week to read Arlo & Janis. ;-)

LET US EAT AND DRINK, FOR TOMORROW WE DIE.

The weather is hot, humid and smokey.

Different channel. Two weather channels available: good luck getting a forecast.

The weather is bad too. Smoke and pollutants, super hot temperatures, too much rain, too little rain…………..

I can remember a time when there seemed to be no real news. Maybe it was in the 90’s.

And no Gnus is good Gnus with Gary Gnu.

“The sheep will spend their entire life fearing the wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd.” – Unknown proverb

What do you suppose your government is planning tonight? 8^ }

Only minor wildfires so far, but you can bet on a number of idiots causing more leading up to the 4th.

It’s all normal. Growing up we saw ½ hour of Cronkite, Huntley-Brinkley, etc. Today we have 24/7 news. They gotta fill it up with something.

No such thing as “news”. It’s just the same old “stuff” happening to different people.

Weather is the only part I pay attention to

Is it just me or has A&J become less about them and more about current events?

….except the weather!

Listening to the lies? Not for me.

And that just on Friday…

Been some decastating tornados already but we’re getting into the hurricane and wild fire season, there will be plenty of news on them.

He must not be a Historian if he assumes that ‘these days’ are the worst of times

And sports, if you’re a Royals or A’s fan.

I’ve decided that since most people don’t care why should I?

I would like nothing more than to be wrong. But.

Every day, as I follow domestic and international news reports and then consider AGW climate change present outcomes and likely future ones from that same cause, I anticipate that it is likely that not only will no future day for the next several thousand years have less negative outcomes than those now, it is probable that increasingly worse outcomes day/year/decade/century/millennia loom.

This could be mitigated immensely if >1.5C is avoided somehow, but the human behavioral change necessary to accomplish this in the limited time frame available is not an achievement I expect to occur.

Staying well below +2.5C will require technological advances in carbon/methane capture/sequestration which must occur at sufficient scale within 1 – 5 decades. I’m not betting on this.

The first four you can do something about; the weather, not so much

The old Irish curse: “May you live in interesting times”.

I could not disagree with this more. We’ve forgotten how bad everything used to be, and now look at the past with rose-colored glasses.

I grew up fully expecting to die in a nuclear war, along with all life on the Earth. The threat of WWIII was a frequent topic on the news.

The last major war in Europe wasn’t WWII. It was in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and killed 100,000 people.

In late 1960s and early 1970s an airplane was hijacked, on average, once every five days somewhere around the world. Many of these were in the US.

Political unrest in the 1960s, especially the assassinations of MLK and JFK, caused many people at the time to believe the United States had less 25 years before it crumbled.

The past was just as bad as it is now.

North East West South Anything news?

1939-1945 was pretty unsettled, too.