War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
The nasty, dangerous and anti-American scene at the US Capitol earlier this year will always be most-likely one odd bit of national history — the off-tune is reality. Live TV and video later showed a hardcore, cruel attack on a government building with the express mission of changing an election outcome, with five people dying…
Despite what your eyes and ears tell you, a shitload of Americans are just plain brain-fucked as the attack last January on the US Capitol building has gone from an insurrection/riot to a tourist walk to FBI-induced event to now it’s all Joe Biden and Democrats fault — Repubicans are atrociously insane, gripping the country…
Heat on the edge of scorch again today in Califoria’s Central Valley with triple-digit temperatures accompanied by not a ziltch of wind — in my neck-of the Valley, it’s 100-degrees downtown, yet contrary to what I’d think, it’s two-degrees hotter here in the more-tree abundant suburbs, We;re usually hotter out here every day, baffler in…
Good Sunday morning, and another musical intermission from all the terrible, disquieting bullshit rambling about out in the world, especially in these here United States, instead give a listen to some really good, topnotch covers of some really good topnotch rock/near-about-rock sounds — last installment here — and today coming from a new place. Usually…
In our continuing struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic — after about a year-and-a-half — we appear in the right-now time-frame/plotline to be in a kind limbo-downer, falling short of a crucial breakpoint in obtaining sny kind of ‘herd immunity’ and maybe getting-back some small sense of ‘normal,’ whatever that is nowadays. Big obstacle is anti-vaxxers…
Fans of Fox Mulder rejoiced this afternoon as the US Office of National Intelligence released its long-awaited UFO report, though, leaving more conclusions up in the air than identified — the so-called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force checked-out 144 events: ‘These reports describe incidents that occurred between 2004 and 2021, with the majority coming in…
So far this Friday morning there’s at least two major news stories rolling out, both have current significance as well as somewhat longer-range connotations. Oddly, too, the pair also should be of no big surprise. Shock maybe with the overriding lead item (Washington Post): ‘At least 159 people are unaccounted for following a condo building’s sudden…
(Illustration: Satellite pix via Copernicus, the EU’s earth observation program, depicting the heatwave which blazed across Serbia this past weekend; image found here). Even as the Western US boiled this past week, and the Pacific Northwest is boiling right now — here today in California’s Central Valley we’re a balmy, nice 90-degrees, but the heat-level…
Briefly brushing aside politics for a moment, let’s take another peek at a fully-formed catastrophe that will soon be the headliner — climate change. Although today here in California’s Central Valley is really nice — mid-90s with a cool breeze — our drought is continuing to worsen and our warming environment is not helping. In…
One of the most-glaring examples of current Republican malfeasance occurred yesterday in the US Senate — Dana Milbank at The Washington Post correctly summed it up: ‘Senate Republicans voted in lockstep on Tuesday to block the landmark voting rights bill, in effect embracing the disenfranchisement of non-White voters under the “big lie” justification that widespread…
