Clive Cussler R.I.P.
February 26, 2020A bit of sad news announced today — Clive Cussler, action-adventure novelist, who sent unflappable fiction hero Dirk Pitt on insane missions all over the globe, died Monday at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
T-Rump’s Ability to Handle Coronavirus: ‘Towering and Dangerous Incompetence’
February 25, 2020The US along with the whole-wide world are in a particular cruel position right now, as the supposed leader of the free world an unhinged, ignorant asshole without a moral sense of action. And so…
Despite All the Shit — ‘Don’t Let It Bring You Down’
February 22, 2020Surprise this morning as I was re-introduced to one of my most-favorite songs from one of my historically most favorite musical artists, Neil Young, and from of my weirdest periods ever, the mid-1970s. I was…
North Coast Coronavirus Victim As Outbreak Continues
February 21, 2020Along with everything else, there’s that Chinese coronavirus, and today an unexpected shock — latest California victim was reported in Humboldt County, where I used to live for more than 12 years until moving here…
California Drought, Again
February 21, 2020Sunshine is good, but we really need rain to survive. Although our Pacific Northwest neighbors experienced drenching rainfall already this year, California has been pretty-much dry, somehow the storms missing us. Yesterday, the U.S. Drought…
Methane Sucks for the T-Rump
February 20, 2020A major environmental report largely ignored — methane is an air bitch: from ScienceAlert yesterday on a new study published in Nature: Methane is an ‘invisible climate menace’ — roughly 30 times more potent as a…
Turmoil American Style
February 19, 2020This country is up shit creek without a paddle — a group of federal judges had set an emergency meeting for today on matters that “could not wait,” but now have decided to wait after…
T-Rump — Imbecilic Crime Boss, or ‘Just Making a Big-Boy Noise’
February 18, 2020One day to the next, the T-Rump flies further off the corruption rails, not content with nasty meddling in court cases, now he’s just eliminating the justice part of the system and pardoning the already…
Climate Change — Antarctica
February 17, 2020Just to keep up with non-T-Rump news, the planet is still getting hotter, and one of the creeping-hot spots is Antarctica — on the same day last week, an iceberg nearly the size of Atlanta…
T-Rump’s Daddy: ‘You Are a King … You Are a Killer … You Are a King’
February 15, 2020In just a few days an obvious fracture in America’s supposed-rock of liberty: (Illustration found here). Brooklyn-based artist Tim O’Brien. who created the above image for a Time cover in June 2018: ‘“This portrait of…