War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Congenial and clear sunshine this mid-day Monday here in California’s Central Valley, with both the actual physical meteorology and the political weather expected to heat up as time moves through the day — tomorrow the state once again is strapped into a governor-recall election with dire consequences if it succeeds. The whole shebang is wingnuttery…
Just to escape the doomscrolling for a while and center a post this late-afternoon Sunday on a ‘shine‘ in music and in words, we try to visit a brightness from inside with all the darkness prevailing on the outside. What the fuck is that shit? One of my favorite songs of all time — and…
Meanwhile, back to the nowadays — I somehow missed this shit from last week, an episode of how the certifiable are wrecking decent, empathetic society: Down yonder in Rutherford County Tennessee, the deadly ignorance of common sense and historical reality was on full, nasty display when high school student, Grady Knox, gave a pro-mask comment…
Cool and way-comfortable this mid-day Saturday in California’s Central Valley after a week of triple-digit temperatures and real-heavy air — a day of national remembrance of horrific airliner attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, along with Flight 93 ending up in a Pennsylvania field. A way-historic day, maybe right up there with…
(Illustration: ‘MQ-9 Reaper,’ digital artwork by Tommy Anderson, and found here). Oddly and horribly ironic on the eve of one of America’s near-sacred, modern anniversaries, a report today the military drone strike last month in Kabul as mass evacuations were taking place was actually another fatal, deadly fuck-up in a 20-year-history of such fuck-ups, capping…
(Illustration: Untitled (1981), by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and found here). Today 20 years ago was a Monday. Although I’ve tried to remember how that particular day felt, other than another beautiful day in San Luis Obispo, California, and any sense at all about a quickly-coming, history-shifting event was way-zilch, and way-non-existent. Other than the beginning to…
Three months ago, there was a glimmer of hope in the COVID pandemic, but now a shit scene, and doesn’t look like it will be any better soon — from the Associated Press yesterday: The summer that was supposed to mark America’s independence from COVID-19 is instead drawing to a close with the U.S. more…
As we stand this Thursday morning, America’s version of democracy is on the ropes. Latest assault on our system came from/in Texas, and was nearly hidden by an oversized, cruel abortion law, a free-for-all gun law, and a shitload of the state’s citizens suffering and dying from COVID — Asshat Abbott on Tuesday signed into…
Air gets way-weighty when it gets hot. Outside just minutes ago, with the temperature reportedly 104-degrees this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley, the air felt really, really heavy. And we’re forecast for triple-digits until dark, still about three hours away. Enough of the whine. Although it’s uncomfortable here, we’re not in the real…
Although the T-Rump has been gone from office nearly nine months, his inbred-toxic hatred of humanity remains deeply embedded within Republicans, and just about every day (maybe twice/three times a day) they prove cruelty is the point. Today no exception as Greg Abbott once again flourished with a pure, and complete, lack of self-awareness, or…
