Screamin’ Sounds
July 27, 2020Hot this Monday afternoon in California’s Central Valley. Too much shit going on for much more than some sounds for the times — this near-about my anthem this past year: Coupled with this: And this…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
‘Trump is a greater threat to the USA than terrorism!!’
July 19, 2020A flashback this morning (via Rolling Stone): Linkin Park issued a cease and desist against Donald Trump after the president’s team used their music without permission in a campaign video posted on Twitter Saturday. The…
Heat in Time — ‘A Kind of Vicious Circle’
July 2, 2020Hot but manageable this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — temps have been high-90s this week, but by the weekend, supposedly back into the unbearable triple digits. Heat in the summer time… In…
‘Are These Times Contagious?’
June 30, 2020A black plague of news — Run: ‘Have I got a long way to run?‘ (Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Les Deux Saltimbanques: l’Arlequin et Sa Compagne,’ found here).
Quake!
June 24, 2020Earthquake just a few minutes ago, and according to the USGS, the shaker, located south of Lone Pine, California, registered a 5.8 on the Richter Scale. I was lying on my bed surfing the InterWebs…
Walking Leroy in the Valley — Episode 15 (abridged)
June 22, 2020Another blurb of Leroy and me on a hike along the Rascal Bike Path here in Merced, a city of a bit more than 80,000 about an hour north of Fresno on the 99, heatedly-blistering…
Words of Wisdom
June 20, 2020In the mishmash of shit flowing through the airwaves nowadays, some words of wisdom from 17-year-old climate-change crusader, Greta Thunberg, who ignites the slender, but strong-adjoining thread between the coronavirus pandemic and the way-crisis in…
‘Wacko and Incompetent’
June 19, 2020An open-ugly side of hiring nasty, dip-shits: A few details via The Hill this afternoon: “The president makes hiring decisions based on the fact that he likes to have countervailing viewpoints,” McEnany told reporters during…
T-Rump ‘Threatens the World’s Health, Economic Security, and Social Fabric’
June 18, 2020Hot and breezy this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, and although 94-degrees right now, reportedly the last ‘cool‘ day for awhile as starting tomorrow triple digits for the next seven to 10 days…
T-Rump No Semblance of Sense
June 12, 2020Most-excellent view of positions in the chain and empathy (great h/t Miss Cellania): A little together in diversity as shown by this study on integration in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2002 (Washington Post this morning):…