War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Rain showers with some a now-and-again wave of thin-tinted bright this afternoon — nothing out of the ordinary, just a weather system struggling across the north coast of California, with that occasional drifting-hole in the cloud cover allowing the sun to peek through for just a moment. SOP — nothing alarming. Same most-likely for the…
Cloudy with occasional rain-showers this early Thursday on California’s north coast, a preview forecast for us the next few days. An additional ugly, slightly-nauseous mug in the news recently has belonged to George Jr., who’s been floating about the airwaves hawking a book and soft-clowning for the news media. In all those interviews, never once…
Bright and breezy this late afternoon as the day is slowly falling-darkly away. Those gosh-awful midterms last week should have been called the ‘apathetic election’ as it had the worst turnout in 72 years — just 36.3 percent of eligible voters went to the polls. Up here in Humboldt County we followed suit — just…
Beautiful, wondrous skies early Wednesday up top this little section of California’s north coast — clouds like red-tinted porcelain seems to stretch far back east as the sun readies to arrive. Of course, not-too-far back east, a shitload of people are well into mid-week — bustling, hustling along, apparently without a freakin’ clue. Yesterday, from…
Dark and overcast this Tuesday afternoon here on California’s north coast — and getting cold, too. We’re forecast for rain tomorrow, and on-n-off precipitation through the weekend. Of course, our ‘cold,’ ain’t nowhere like ‘cold‘ for some parts of the US. For instance: ‘Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama, are expecting daytime high temperatures in the mid-40s…
Bright sunshine and a cool breeze this afternoon — the day keeps on going. Oddly paradoxical, a couple of new environmental-related studies reported today reveal the weirdness and tragedy of climate change. One is on natural effects, and the other on human affects. An aspect of global warming — the greenhouse effect — is that a…
Bright sunshine and a seemingly-warm breeze this early Monday here on California’s north coast, a kind of opposite to the weather across the US upper mid-west, where temperatures are “…about 20 degrees below the average high…” and nabs the title, ‘Winter Storm Astro,’ first of the season. And a first, too, a Fukushima “fingerprint” is…
Overcast and chilly this early Sunday on California’s north coast — weather here all depends on the wind. Apparently, the weather of politics, too. In the tsunami off the Tuesday quake, I spied this poll survey in the LA Times yesterday, which revealed in the current wind direction/velocity, our two US senators, Barbara Boxer and…
Sunshine, high, fluffy clouds and a cool breeze this Saturday afternoon on California’s north coast — we’re supposed to have comparable conditions the next couple of days, but weather’s still weather, especially this close to the shoreline. A chance of rain by Tuesday. Along with the gut-wrenching, flinging bad shit into a high-tempered fan last…
Bright shiny sunshine this afternoon, and a nice warm breeze, too. In the quaking and shuddering over the midterms, one item just a week or so ago seemed to pass without much notice — the US Marines handed over control (the keys) to Camp Leatherneck, the huge military installation in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, to the Afghans.…
