War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Ending of the Thanksgiving four-day spread this early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley, first of two precarious holiday functions to finish out one shitty year, Christmas/New Year now approaching in sight. Outside just now doing a BM (Black&Mild, Wine), the small backyard of my daughter’s apartment was quiet and near-serene, though, Merced city traffic…
Despite evidence to the way-contrary, the T-Rump continues to lie his fat-ass off about the election, screaming into the void of Fox News and his cult of lie-lovers — Maria Bartiromo interviewed/showcased the T-Rump this morning on her Sunday Morning Futures show, which left no doubt to the phony-as-a-three-dollar-bill future. In the 45-minute bullshit session,…
A major freaky in a freaky year just got much-more freaky: Eleven days ago, the freaky object was discovered by the Utah Department of Public Safety Aero Bureau during a routine wildlife mission via helicopter counting bighorn sheep in the southeastern part of the state and the situation captured the freak of the time. No…
A settled-quiet this early-evening Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — a welcome respite from a torturous grind of information producing a sad form of befuddled anxiety, or maybe, and most-likely, I’m experiencing just a station-break from this year’s clusterfuck of unsettling, weird-ass Twilight Zone episodes. News reports today seemed a bit blurry, looking like…
In a sea of idiotic shit, maybe the most-dumb-ass yet: Legal realities via Law&Crime yesterday afternoon: As one law school civil procedure textbook notes, “the party with the burden of proof, usually the plaintiff, must have a sufficiency of evidence as to each element of at least one cause of action to permit a reasonable fact…
Cool and clear this early-evening Friday here in California’s Central Valley, and my sense right now feels a bit like a way-dark comedy seething with measurable trepidation — an unhinged monster is calling the shots in some serious shit, especially with a part of that shit, a vast war machine. Domestically, the T-Rump has been…
A snapshot of Black Friday in a world dominated by a horror which would be funny if not for nuclear codes, and so forth, and the way-precarious position we’re in until Jan. 20, and maybe beyond: Yesterday the tide was set — per HuffPost last night: Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason asked Trump if…
I saw this odd news item today: (Illustration found here). Only in 2020 — via the Guardian this afternoon: Residents of an Austrian village will ring in the new year under a new name – Fugging – after ridicule of their signposts, especially on social media, became too much to bear. They finally grew weary…
Actual reality of this day via the great Mark Twain: Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for — annually, not oftener — if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous…
Beyond politics and the virus: Climate change is earth’s biggest issue, and is more than just a problem for future generations.The shit is already here. The hottest warming-up spot is also one of the coldest — the Arctic. And it’s getting so warm visitors don’t need long-johns, with a situation grim for the immediate future.…
