War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In the midst of COVID, low economic numbers, the Liz Cheney/Elise Stefanik shit-storm, Joe Biden wearing a mask longer than necessary, and an assortment of other news items cycling through the system this morning — even from last night of the Alabama legislature startlingly okaying medical marijuana (being originally from there, I did not see…
A crisis even beyond the COVID pandemic is climate change, and the struggle with controlling the virus is a startling preview to action on the horrid effects already present off global warming, though, the real horrible shit is still to come — the New York Times yesterday ventured a look at the connection: The stark…
(Illustration: The U.K. and France as seen from the Space Station, and found here). Just when you thought it was safe to go outside again, or maybe even stay inside, depends on the chance: Details via SpaceNews on Friday: China launched the first module for its space station into orbit late Wednesday, but the mission…
(Illustration: California drought from April 2020 to April this year, and found here). Although the Joe Biden administration is attempting a full-throttle fight against the searing, on-going, rapidly-accelerating climate-change phenomenon, the heating of the planet continues with wide-ranging consequences. Here in California the obvious effect is water — there’s barely any, which leads to our…
One of the scarier aspects of COVID-19 is its changing weirdness, not only in the quickly sprouting variants and mutations of the original coronavirus, but how science can do so much in the time we have — COVID is only about 18-19 months old, we here in the US have known about it now for…
Today the 51st anniversary of Earth Day — began April 22, 1970, when life had a much-clearer feel and look to it, there was optimism in the long-range scope of nourishing our still green-ass planet. Just a bit more than two months later, the Environmental Protection Agency came into being, founded by Republican Dick Nixon.…
In the wake of the George Floyd verdict, one of my all-time favorite songs, which comes from one of the most-neatest period of musical memories, the 1990s. Although I grew of age in the English invasion of the late 1960s, and the emergence of the American rock sound of the 1970s, the 90s carried the…
Beyond the knotty dung-drops happening right now — another shooting, closing arguments in the Derek Chauvin murder trial, Republicans whining about Maxine Waters talking truth, a drone flight on Mars, and so forth — a major event in the battle against climate change happens this week when the world is supposed to come together to…
Once again, another intermission from the frightfully tedious news cycles screaming ugly scenarios ad infinitum seemingly crafted by Rod Serling with a collaboration effort from Kurt Vonnegut. However, no one, really, could have thought this shit up, though, a load of people have tried, and got it wrong. This recess from that blare is a…
Beyond the political idiocy of Republicans, today one who doesn’t understand satire, and for a couple of weeks another who’s been upgraded from just fucked to royally fucked to a subject matter really out-distancing all of our so-called problems right now, which is climate change, really a climate crisis. A runaway fright train barreling down…
