Sacramento, CA — Senior Judge William Shubb of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California Wednesday granted

I’m just on the tail end of recovering from COVID.  Yes, I finally got it. The good news is that I managed – through luck, thoughtful masking and crowd avoidance – to put off getting it until science gave me the vaccine and boosters to keep me out of the hospital, off the ventilator and, thank goodness, on the right side of the grass.

Lately my thoughts and energy have been on the climate crisis. Here we are, a week after a massive storm

Over the past two years, I had made some desultory attempts nearby but without success: the Baltimore Bayview yard and Hyattsville, MD. The latter was a particular waste of time because CSX upgraded the tracks long ago, making the trains too fast to jump, but I lazily hoped against hope to find a train stopped for clearance or the like. The last failed attempt was in late November, when in a bit of Murphy’s law, I found 2 repairmen adjusting a crossing signal. At a time like that, there would be no trains, period.

Maybe the perfect world we seek Is not meant to be; Maybe the bliss of heaven Becomes hell for eternity;

Colorado (into the blooming) branches, trees, scenery mountains in the distance snow is on the rocky ledges slip and pick

[One of the films Rao viewed at the Charles Theater in 1981 that made a major impression on him was