Browbeat Blowback
December 11, 2014The word “blowback” was invented by the CIA to put a name on their ‘unintended’ fuck-ups — one sliver of ‘blowback’ already off the ‘CIA Torture Report’ concerns the real-big lie. From McClatchy: ‘CIA Director…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Rain and Seain’ Stars
December 11, 2014Heavy rain and way-gothic winds this early Thursday on California’s north coast — I can’t see the clouds at all, just a black way up there. And earlier, some pointed lightning flashes, and seemingly close-up,…
Orwellians
December 10, 2014A swelling interest in George Orwell, in a swelling Orwellian age of WikiLeaks and worldwide mega- surveillance — art imitating life, and life becoming a movie. Robert Butler at Intelligent Life magazine reviews the literature of…
‘Report’ Ejectamenta
December 10, 2014As the now-infamous ‘CIA Torture Report’ continues to wedge down the digestive tract, some upshots — one, how effective Sen. Mark Udall’s outrage speech this morning on the floor of the Senate:’““One disturbing finding: [CIA]…
Vinnie’s Sister
December 10, 2014Today Emily Dickinson would be 184 — a nice, round, unobtrusive age for someone who’d been wonderful to have known at least for a time, brief or not, during those first 56 years. Dickinson has…
‘Pineapple’ River of Rain
December 10, 2014Howling wind blowing a future wet here this early Wednesday on California’s north coast as we get prepared for some heavy rain coming this morning and lasting apparently through the weekend. We are expected at…
Vex to the Third-Degree
December 9, 2014Thickly-overcast and gloomy this Tuesday evening here on this little stretch of California’s north coast — rain a-coming big-time. Today is also torture-awareness day (via The Daily Beast): ‘Interrogations that lasted for days on end.…
Afghan Affiche Agenda
December 8, 2014Rain showers this early Monday on California’s north coast — forecast for maybe some sun tomorrow, but reportedly a big-bang storm due in about mid-week — we’re scheduled perhaps for nearly 2.5 inches of rain…
Ontological Anniversary
December 7, 2014Today marks the 73rd commemoration of the ‘Day of Infamy,’ the Japanese bombing of the US Naval Base at Peal Harbor. In a ceremony this morning, more than 50 WWII veterans remembered Dec. 7, 1941,…
GOPer Warms
December 5, 2014Considered ‘partly cloudy,’ right now, though maybe in a few minutes the word, ‘partly,’ will be replaced by its opposite, ‘wholly,’ as heavy rain is forecast for this afternoon on this little stretch of California’s…