Does anybody really know what time it is?

It's Thor's day … and appropriately, thunderstorms are predicted near TulseyTown today.

Today in 1906 an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.9 destroyed most of San Francisco. The quake and its aftermaths generated a consequential death toll estimated at 3,000+ people.

It's Albert Einstein's birthdate. The theoretical physicist was born in 1879 Ulm, Württemberg, Germany

Four days to Earth Day . . .

The Main Street of Big Sur is crumbling into the sea.

We can’t manage an ecosystem! What hubris to think human beings can enter into millions of interconnected, complicated, refluxing, pricking, stinging, collaborating relationships, and manage it. Just as we can’t organise an ecosystem, we can’t plan collapse. We can’t narcissistically techno-fix a way through this. We have to enter into it. – Sophie Strand.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. – attributed to Ram Dass, who attributed the insight to Albert Einstein. I think both of these fine minds would agree that the problem of global warming is not likely to be found by limiting ourselves to the suggestions of those from the oil or automotive (or aeronautical, ad infinitum) industries. We will have to imagine ourselves outside of the box we have built around the brains that created the problem.

Post hoc, ergo, propter hoc

Nobody knows what's going on anymore

Because

Nobody knows what's going on anymore.

– jab