War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Today is Saturday — six years ago it was a Friday: June 22, 2007. My first day on the job at the liquor store I now manage. The owner was then involved in a overwrought, emotional collapse of his marriage and hired me on the spot — I proceeded behind the counter and haven’t left.…
Watching a TV series in continuous fashion, one episode after another without waiting a week in between — online video streaming — is really a remarkable way to enjoy stuff. Instead of a long wait for another segment, it’s right there. And this quickness of action seemingly allows more time to catch certain subtle jokes…
Overcast and a bit warm this Friday morning as we head into another weekend — time flies when given time. Today, of course, is the first day of summer — the Summer Solstice — and is supposedly the longest day of the year. In fact, according to the brainiacs, this day is so long it…
Seemingly clear skies this Thursday morning on California’s north coast, but I can’t see any twinkling stars — must be a way-high overcast way-up yonder somewhere. Well, this is Humboldt County, we’re higher than the rest of the country combined, to start with, and to finish. America as a concept is pretty-much over — this…
Once again it’s already middle of the week — time flies when shit runs supreme. And a lot of it does stick to the wall. Another foggy early morning here on California’s north coast as I wade through the current news cycle, seeking whatever sticks to that proverbial wall and most of it ain’t funny,…
Foggy and a bit on the drizzly side this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — we’ve a 30 percent chance for more rain today, but the sun will peek out sometime later, somehow it always does. And despite a shitload of other news happening, the NSA escapade also somehow peeks its nefarious face out…
Ground fog and way-oddly quiet this here-already Monday morning along California’s north coast, and the Pacific Ocean only a mile or so away, can’t be heard at all — usually there’s at least a muted roar from the west. In the still of near-silence, an image of a world far, far away. Yet the imagination…
This seemed appropriate: The radar is picking up a line of thundershowers which extends from a point 9 miles NNE of Sicorgus, New Jersey, along a line and 6 miles either side of the line to a point 5 miles SSW of Fonduloch. However, the radar is also picking up a squadron of Russian ICBMs……
Since the election last November, the US has witnessed maybe a watershed shift with life in America, and especially the view of President Obama. Just a bit more than a month after the polls had closed was Sandy Hook Elementary — which ‘celebrated‘ a six-month anniversary yesterday. And following closely, shit-bird crisis after shit-bird crisis,…
(Illustration found here). A kind of shaker coming in the wake of the NSA/Internet/surveillance weirdness is the news today of someone pulling off a “sophisticated” hack late last year of CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s computer devices, and the attack didn’t appear random. Via the Washington Post: In a statement Friday, CBS did not identify…
