War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Yesterday seemed special as politics and the coronavirus overlapped each other with Joe Biden finally nabbing the Electoral college president-elect title (and this morning both MoscowMitch and his benefactor, Vlad Putin, belateldy proclaimed as such), and America’s first COVID-19 vaccine rolled out — the Pfizer/BioNTech shot was first administered to New York health-care worker, Sandra…
A couple of big stories this Monday afternoon, neither a big surprise, but one kind of sudden — the Electoral college voted correctly with Joe Biden once again proclaimed President-Elect (how many times now?), and in a kind of aftershock, US AG Bill Barr resigned, an action of “a mystery wrapped inside a riddle.” First,…
As we await the hopefully forgone conclusions of the Electoral college vote today, there’s a related side-note with an awesome interview with the way-great Cher this morning at the Guardian — I’ve had an incredible crush on her since 1965 as a sophomore in high school. She’s ‘only’ two years older than I, so there…
As if there wasn’t enough shit on our plates, now the Russkies: And it was the Russians — via Reuters, updated this evening: Hackers believed to be working for Russia have been monitoring internal email traffic at the U.S. Treasury Department and an agency that decides internet and telecommunications policy, according to people familiar with…
California is soaring with COVID-19 cases and death, and now the state’s Central Valley (where I reside) is quickly going to shitsville with ICU-bed capacity dropping like a rock (h/t BJ): We’re in a world of hurt — from the LA Times this morning: The last time Dr. Eyad Almasri had a day off was…
America is currently located at a twisted crossroads where our 250-year-old experiment in democracy has come to a threshhold of change, one way or another the future is storm-cloudy. The T-Rump and a hige chunk of Americans seem to think we can veer off into the weeds and be fine — the bad shit is…
As the COVID-19 coronavirus sweeps across the planet, all of us have a shitload of time on our hands and a lot of sofa-dwelling, binge-TV time, and there’s a lot to view. Reportedly, popular for the era/moment are movies about virus outbreaks (Duh!) and assorted-like scenarios in keeping with our current predictament. What caused this…
A warmed-hearted breaking-news event this afternoon (h/t tengrain): Via CNN: The Supreme Court rejected a bid from Texas’ attorney general — supported by President Donald Trump — to block the ballots of millions of voters in battleground states that went in favor of President-elect Joe Biden. The court’s move to dismiss the challenge is the…
Despite the T-Rump’s cold-hearted lackeys attempt to fuck the country via SCOTUS, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to surge, and here in California it’s boiling — where I live in the Central Valley we’re running out of ICU beds, and even social-distancing space. Although the stay-at-home order continues due to the mass of new cases, restrictions…
If you’re a ‘celebrity’ even a deadly virus is nothing at all: Yesterday, the US set a record for single-day deaths from COVID-19 at 3,054, and then today broke it. And also today, CDC Director Robert Redfield said the dying will continue apparently unabated: ‘“We are in the timeframe now that probably for the next…
