War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Bright and cool this late afternoon, but without DST, nighttime seems to come quick, getting-darker faster. End-of-a-terrible mystery news: The “melting,” or “wasting” disease horribly killing sea stars — or ‘star fish‘ — along the West Coast, including right here in Humboldt County, is apparently caused by a type of parvovirus, bad shit usually found…
Clear and chilly outside this early Monday — way-high, wispy clouds, though, will most-likely tone-down sunshine — but this little patch of California’s north coast does feel the sense of real, around-here cold for the first time this year. Temperatures reportedly in the low-40s with a slight, sharp-crisp breeze, the ambience on my back patio…
Deep gray afternoon here on California’s north coast — rain, too, on and off, light to sometimes fairly heavy. Today, in a library a couple of miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School, a public hearing was held on a private nightmare. Nelba Marquez-Greene, a family therapist with trauma training, who lost a six-year-old daughter in…
Dark and rainy this early Friday on California’s north coast, and on my back patio, a sight of a half-moon hanging slightly southward, but seemingly way-up there in a broken-cloudy sky. A lot of rain last night, and the few days. Rainfall totals for the area last month from the NWS — my little spot…
Rain showers with some a now-and-again wave of thin-tinted bright this afternoon — nothing out of the ordinary, just a weather system struggling across the north coast of California, with that occasional drifting-hole in the cloud cover allowing the sun to peek through for just a moment. SOP — nothing alarming. Same most-likely for the…
Cloudy with occasional rain-showers this early Thursday on California’s north coast, a preview forecast for us the next few days. An additional ugly, slightly-nauseous mug in the news recently has belonged to George Jr., who’s been floating about the airwaves hawking a book and soft-clowning for the news media. In all those interviews, never once…
Bright and breezy this late afternoon as the day is slowly falling-darkly away. Those gosh-awful midterms last week should have been called the ‘apathetic election’ as it had the worst turnout in 72 years — just 36.3 percent of eligible voters went to the polls. Up here in Humboldt County we followed suit — just…
Beautiful, wondrous skies early Wednesday up top this little section of California’s north coast — clouds like red-tinted porcelain seems to stretch far back east as the sun readies to arrive. Of course, not-too-far back east, a shitload of people are well into mid-week — bustling, hustling along, apparently without a freakin’ clue. Yesterday, from…
Dark and overcast this Tuesday afternoon here on California’s north coast — and getting cold, too. We’re forecast for rain tomorrow, and on-n-off precipitation through the weekend. Of course, our ‘cold,’ ain’t nowhere like ‘cold‘ for some parts of the US. For instance: ‘Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama, are expecting daytime high temperatures in the mid-40s…
Bright sunshine and a cool breeze this afternoon — the day keeps on going. Oddly paradoxical, a couple of new environmental-related studies reported today reveal the weirdness and tragedy of climate change. One is on natural effects, and the other on human affects. An aspect of global warming — the greenhouse effect — is that a…
