War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
A good, interesting interview in the days approaching our 250th anniversary celebration: Dr. Joanne Freeman, professor of history at Yale University, at Public Notice today — some snips: Yeah. Speaking as an early American historian who spent decades immersed in what the founding generation thought about political power — specifically about executive power — this…
Projection: Definition/projection: Projection is one example of unconscious psychological processes called defense mechanisms. Some people find it hard to accept criticism or believe information that they wish were not true. So they seek – and then provide – another explanation for the difference between what’s happening in the world and what’s happening in their minds.…
Babel, bad babel: Ugly reality without an ounce of irony or shame, or just truthful good sense. And a leap into the real ‘vandals’ of our DC heritage sites — one of the most interesting and actually the most obvious view: Dana Milbank at NOTUS: I made one more stop on my tour: the Capitol,…
The nightmare will be televised — green waste edition:: Further: An attitude — Michael Tomasky at The New Republic this afternoon: You’d think a guy who just lost a war would have bigger matters on his mind, but to Trump, matters don’t come any bigger than the Reflecting Pool and the Kennedy Center, because they…
Embedded into our character nowadays: Horrifingly weird, a good majority of the shit fucking with the planet has its origin stories in the bowel-brain of the T-Rump — now: Details (Newsweek): A viral photograph of a dead duck floating in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has intensified scrutiny of the landmark’s recent $14 million renovation,…
El Niño — Daniel Swain explains: El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a semi-regular recurring cycle that transfers vast amounts of heat and momentum from the tropical Pacific to the global atmosphere. It is triggered every 3–7 years when the prevailing easterly trade winds weaken or reverse, allowing warm…
First post since the day before the start of T-Rump’s Iranian adventure. An image: My longtime blog favorite of all the T-Rump mugs. However, one must remember the word ‘favorite ‘ does not mean in any form or fashion, as in ‘my favorite movie’ or ‘my favorite song.’ It’s more of an anti-appreciation/like. Aptly titled,…
In another quick, hard rebuke, Radiohead has told DHS to stop using their song, “Let Down,” in pro-ICE video ads, because it sucks, and besides, there’s no way in shit the band would have given the OK to use it. Via Variety this morning: Radiohead has issued a joint band statement decrying the use of the…
In advance of T-Rump’s state of failure speech tomorrow night: (Ben Jennings’ cartoon found at the Guardian). History reveals even the most shitty of US presidents honored America — Michael Tomasky at The New Republic this morning: We cannot say remotely the same of Donald Trump. He is largely and proudly ignorant of those traditions;…
Bright, late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — reportedly 71 degrees; I was just outside (in the small, apartment-sized backyard doing a bowl) and the air felt barely-chilled by quiet wisps of a near-about warmish breeze. Preview maybe of a coming scorching-ass summer. Yet for the right now and being a bit selfish, it’s…
