War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
I’m 75-years old today, and was freakin’ born on a Monday — WTF! (Image found here.) In the passion of time, today was formed from just yesterday, or maybe 1978 (when I was 30). Seemingly, after I turned 70 in 2018, it’s so like I aged a shitload in only five years, with a surge…
Here we are on Friday, the day after yesterday. Although there’s great news out of Gaza, in America, the Republican brand remains not-screwed-on-tight with letting go of the crazy. Not only from the T-Rump — shit starts at the head — but from the whole, mentally-unbalanced MAGA lot has the influence. Turkey day was also…
(Image found here.) In America 60 years ago today was a Friday. However, for me in the ninth grade, it was already Saturday. The assassination of JFK is a milestone in US history, and with us in the boomer-age crowd, the event was/is a kind of loud scream in the dark, tightly earmarked on all…
As we start Thanksgiving week this Monday morning in the US, the world is on the edge of shit-storming climate change seemingly barreling out of control without much reactions — UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns: ‘“Present trends are racing our planet down a dead-end 3C temperature rise. This is a failure of leadership, a betrayal…
(Rosalynn Carter arriving at the Nashville Municipal Airport in Tennessee, Sept.6, 1976 — image found here.) Rosalynn Carter has died. She was 96. A few weeks (or maybe a few days) before that photograph above, as a young journalist, I had interviewed Rosalynn at another airport, the one in Montgomery, Alabama, as she made a…
Weekend again — time flies when America is having so much fun! And via the wondrous Randy Rainbow explaining the anti-marvelous Ms Santos: Meanwhile, straying further from dream to nightmare: In that near-same, familiar vein this morning: And then, get freaking, fucking serious: Although not a mystery, there’s an Enigma not-so-quick at hand: A riot/insurrection,…
Dark too soon this early-evening Friday here in California’s Central Valley — another week of useless Republican non-governance as the sun sets across a chaotic, close-to-the-edge-of democratic catastrophe America; a clusterfuck of a shitstorm for the country appears right around the corner. The reason? One of our only two political parties is compiled solely of…
Back in the saddle again! Or onto the laptop again, whichever works! This is my first post after my cataract eye surgery last week at the Fresno VA Medical Center and from all early indications the procedure on my right eye turned out really good. with the examination the day after surgery showed A-Okay to…
I’m scheduled for eye surgery tomorrow at the VA Medical Center in Fresno so it might be a while before I post again here. Vision is somewhat important in writing, even with blog writing, located maybe at the bottom of the literary-totem pole. The procedure I’m to undergo is considered supposedly no big deal (Mayo…
Election night and the feasting might be lopsided, although the polls have just closed around the country, the forecast is full of tiny hope (New York Times): Polls have closed in Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and most precincts in Mississippi, states holding off-year elections that will affect abortion access and shape the national debate about it…
