War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
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.…
Despite tons of evidence to the contrary, and the transition officially underway, the T-Rump is still blabbering about ballot-box fraud, and continued today backing-up personal nutcase/lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s induced public hearing in Pennsylvania on voting “irregularities,” ironically a day after the state certified the election to Joe Biden. Although the T-Rump was expected to attend…
Since he was called winner of the 2020 presidential election more than two weeks ago, Joe Biden has acted presidential, and even more so today as he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris introduced the national security team in Wilmington, Delaware: ‘Biden said his nominees will “restore America globally, its global leadership and its moral leadership,…
As the T-Rump readies himself to pardon the annual turkey this near-midday Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley, the real story of the holiday season is rolling hard — ‘US Covid-19 cases could reach 20 million by Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, according to a new modeling forecast from Washington University in St. Louis.‘ Meanwhile, from John Hopkins…
