Crawford Kilian
@crof
Retired college teacher, recovering novelist. Born 1941 (CO2: 310 ppm). Still doing journalism and walking the dog. Writing for @thetyee.ca for over 20 years.
What North American air quality is like today, July 16, according to the AQ Index: aqicn.org/map/northame...
Fujairah is in the UAE but on the Gulf of Oman, outside the Strait of Hormuz. Attacking its oil facilities could close it as an export alternative to Hormuz.
I wish everyone a happy Christmas, and may 2026 be full of very, very good news.
The Russian incursion into Estonian airspace today was near the island of Vaindloo, in the Gulf of Finland and not that far from Tallinn and Helsinki (or St. Petersburg):
What the OECD think Trump's 10% tariffs could do to the world: www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
A lot more of Santa Monica is under evacuation order/alert than I'd realized:
And as I recall, no Americans sent their kids to the USSR for a superior education; American boomers cleaned the Soviets' clock:
Perri gets 3-4km a day out of me whether I'm in the mood or not. She's our third Aussie; the first two were formidable too.
According to Google Maps, it's a 2-hour drive down the M5 from Homs to Damascus:
Here's our Perri a few years ago, when she was a party girl. She's a little more grown-up now:
As I recall, my brother and I sat through two consecutive showings at the El Portal in North Hollywood. I was 9, he was 8.