War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Set aside for a minute the Joe/Vlad face-to-face on the shores of peaceful Lake Geneva, or even the nauseous, toxix Repubican party here in the US, seeking to erase democracy, or the outbreak of vicious gun violence that’s sweeping this country — mass shootings are being normalized by their countinous occurrence — or maybe a…
Of course, the over-domineering news story this morning is the Joe Biden/Vladimir Putin meeting at an 18th-century stately home on Switzerland’s Lake Geneva, and according to most of the reports I’ve seen so far, seemed to go off without any kind noticable problem or controversy. The face-to-face lasted about three hours, and was supposedly to…
Usually, in putting together the couple of posts I do about every day, there’s always some seemingly-more interesting than the dozens of serious/important news items flashing across our screens 24/7, and one or two worthy of the time to build a page on it. Today felt like more than just one was blinking red in…
After an elderly guy in Placer County died in March 2020, the first COVID-19 death in California, the state with the rest of the country went into near-shock mode with lockdowns/shutdowns/stay-at-home orders, etc. that would put a wedge into the normalacy of living. We here in California shut-her-down first in the country and after attempting…
Although Joe Biden has called-out T-Rump by name before (albeit just, “this guy“), he went hard and heavy against the orange-turded asshole today in a press conference in Belgium, while also sticking GQPers-feet to the collective fire: Story via the Guardian‘s live blog this afternoon: In a wide-ranging press conference in Brussels, Joe Biden did…
Somehow I missed this milestone-anniversary yesterday: In June 1971, I was still in the USAF (an air traffic controller) and was way-politically naive, which led me to lean heavily toward the right as most of my superiors/supervisors were conservative bent so I without a reflective thought in my 22-year-old brain went in that direction. I…
Joe Biden is killing it overseas right now — and that’s in a show-biz, Urban Dictionary, ‘performing at the highest level‘ type phrase, and not the Mafia-T-Rump locution — in a so-far, way-successful mission to build-back-better America’s standing on the world stage. After palling with chancellors, prime ministers and presidents involved with the three-day G7…
Even as a lot of Americans are being vaccinated against COVID-19 — I’ve been fully-vaxxed for two months — this pandemic will never be truly over until the world is fully-vaxxed, too, and until then life will be ‘not‘ normal. In fact, there’s been more COVID deaths in the six months of this year then…
In a scenario right out of a horror movie, America is in the throes of a surging onslaught of gun violence as more weapons are made available to anyone with an apparent trigger finger and some mental problems, which by all accounts is quickly becoming a shitload of people. According to Gun Violence Archive, as…
As we wade through the T-Rump/Bad-Billy Barr bullshit, Joe Biden is making great music across the pond at the G7 summit in the UK, and in doing so, seemingly his very presence has a warm-cuddly effect on people worldwide after the last four years of horror. A new survey by Pew Research shows the US…
