War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Overcast, foggy and damp this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, and although there’s moisture in the air, it ain’t rain. Or what we want to be considered rain — yesterday afternoon, last night, at tops, nothing more than sprinkles. Which will make life a little tougher. Forest fires: “It’s unprecedented for us to do…
Clear and cold this Tuesday morning here on California’s north coast, but: In northern Minnesota right now, the temperature has dipped to a staggering -42 F. The chill is running so deep in the North Star State that it’s not only colder than in the lands above the Arctic Circle, it’s actually colder than some…
Despite all my weeping, gnashing of what teeth I’ve got left and screaming at the walls last night, here we are again on a Monday. Again, too, it’s cold and clear on California’s north coast as we start the first official-real week of 2014. And if this year is like 2013, we’ll witness more of…
(Illustration: Alder Point Road in southern Humboldt County, about a two-hour drive slightly southeast of the northern coast, taken Feb. 24, 2011, and found at Kim Sallaway Photography). “Polar Vortex!” A couple of words used extensively this Sunday morning blasting from headlines on news sites across the InterWebs in meteorologist-attempts to quickly, graphically explain the…
A nightmarish cauldron is mushrooming out of control in Iraq, and apparently there’s not anything to be done. Bloody mess George Jr. cooked up, then left on the grill to burn — from the Washington Post this morning: “At the moment, there is no presence of the Iraqi state in Fallujah,” said a local journalist…
Crystal-clear and cold again this Friday morning here on California’s north coast as we wedge deeper into the new year. Not that 2014 will see anything of retentive value to aid in warding off all the shit piled at the year’s front door, but there’s not much we can do about it. The world has…
Occasional sunshine and a bit warmer than usual this afternoon on California’s north coast — not bad by any means, but way-different than the US Northeast, where right now 22 states and 100 million people are getting hammered by the weather — maybe a foot of snow amid blizzard conditions: “(This) is not a big…
Crystal-clear and cold this early Thursday on California’s north coast as we transverse into a brand new, just-like the old year. We made the national news yesterday, and most-likely today, too. And it ain’t good — a popular Catholic priest was found murdered in the rectory of St. Bernard Church in Eureka, about 10 miles…
Thick ground fog and chilly this way-too-early Wednesday here on California’s north coast, and really quiet. This the first day of 2014 — and your point? This past year, it seems to me, has to have been one of the fastest on record. The Boston Marathon bombings — April 15 — feels as if it…
Darkly-overcast with a chilly wind this afternoon on California’s north coast, but more compelling is what’s happening way-west, to the Far East and Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant — more trouble apparently right now, maybe serious trouble. And having nothing but open ocean between the us and…that, does breath concern. In this radioactive horror mix is…
