Half-Staff Idiots

An overcast, humid late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley. Infused with gray clouds, the temperature hasn’t been out-of-control hot as forecast last week. The last couple of days have been nice, though the air has been muggy and warm. Reportedly, in the low 90s right now — livable.

Not livable or believable:

Trump: "The flags are at hask mask"

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-07-13T22:02:48.546Z

Note for Lindsey Graham observance: ‘The flags are at hask — half mask until uhhh Saturday evening.”

Further:

McConnell staff releases new proof of life photo of the Senator.

Missing The Point (@missingthept.bsky.social) 2026-07-13T21:18:39.985Z

We’re inhabiting a surreal, nightmarish scenario.

Twilight Zoned, or not, yet once again here we are …

(Illustration out front — and above — Pablo Picasso’s ‘Seated Pierrot,’ was found here.)

Bruce Maulden

Bruce Maulden is a writer and former newspaper journalist. A graduate of the University of Florida, he began a newspaper career in the mid-1970s as a police reporter at The Montgomery Advertiser in Montgomery, Ala.

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