Courthouse ‘Bootlickers’
May 16, 2024Just an afternoon’s glance at a small angle of our daily news cycle. First, Joe Biden’s team has a way with a red-hot poker burn as news the Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index touched…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Biden OKs Marijuana Reclassification
May 16, 2024Bright sunshine and getting-warm temperatures just past the noon hour Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — the summer routine still playing out early in heat and color. In keeping with the subject line from…
High Half-A-Century — 50th Anniversary Of First Getting Stoned
May 15, 2024Today 50 years ago was also a Wednesday. In those days I was a senior at the University of Florida and was less than a month away from graduating. Although I had the GI Bill…
Time Melting Away On Climate Change — ‘We Live In An Age Of Fools’
May 10, 2024Sunshine and heavy warmth this early-evening Friday here in California’s Central Valley — maybe even the first unofficial day of summer as temps climb into the 90s and officially (for me) the start of T-shirt…
Anguish Of The Nowadays
May 7, 2024Clear skies and super-bright sunshine this Tuesday late afternoon here in California’s Central Valley — despite the chilled-airish breezes all day (temps in the usually-warmish mid-70s), summer-like shit will supposedly take hold at the end…
Proposed Reefer Reclassification Could Open Even-Further Research Into Weed’s Actual Medical Benefits
April 30, 2024Crystal-clear skies empowering still-brighter sunshine this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley. Off the normal topics of shitty T-Rump-related news — his ‘hush money‘ criminal trial numbed the senses today again in NYC; he…
Ugly Friday
April 26, 2024Ugly on a Friday — overcast this near noon in California’s Central Valley, yet nothing like the hideous goings-on back East. History’s real-time living sucks. In a for instance: T-Rump this morning being the piece-of-shit…
Blog Birthday: ‘Almost Legal’
April 24, 2024Seventeen years ago this afternoon Compatible Creatures sprung forth out into the InterWebs. And later that evening in April 2007, my first post — aptly entitled, ‘Word‘ — was published, and from then henceforth life…
Finger Art
April 19, 2024I’d never seen this photo from June 2018 — I was then being prepared for surgery and wasn’t too much into scrolling the InterWebs. This the lede from The Hill piece on the pix: ‘Comedian…
Fire And Farts — T-Rump In New York
April 19, 2024Terrifying shit for a noonish Friday — news dump literally. A couple of items off the T-Rump’s fourth day in New York on that ‘hush money‘/financial campaign-fraud case, one a terrifying outside-the-courtroom incident: Strange, more-than-meets-the-eye…