War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Bright sunshine and warm this late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley — this most likely our last day for a long while with somewhat cooler temperatures (at least in the morning), Tomorrow the reckoning begins with the heat expected to be quick, day-by-day turned up to reach 110 degrees by Saturday. We’ll be getting…
Our own California guy: Gavin Newsom on Jen Psaki’s MSNBC show this morning: On the idiocy of Republicans, especially Gregg Abbott, governor of Texas, and how red states are the worse, and MAGA heads are dumbasses (RealClearPolitics): Criminalizing doctors in the name of freedom, one of the worst crime murder rates in America, one of…
In the wake of T-Rump’s classified documents scandal, more unsealing this afternoon of the actual scene of the crime, the search warrant affidavit: ‘The new version of the affidavit still keeps a number of investigative details secret. But it reveals more about what agents had learned by the time they executed the search at Mar-a-Lago…
Cool despite the heat this noon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley. We’re in a brisk, wonderful respite from hot-as-shit temperatures this week (high today in the low 90s), all made nicer still by a crisp, sweet breeze. When that ‘breeze’ evaporates, though, that sunshine starts to quickly scorch and the only livable space outside…
Hot-feeling sunshine near mid-day Monday here in California’s Central Valley as we join a big, really, really big chuck of humanity baking under numerous heat domes and various weather phenomena created to highly influence the air to become drop-dead blistering as shit. In this flat-anvil-like valley under these circumstances, the before-mentioned ‘air‘ becomes near-about heavy,…
Oddest set of criminal acts in the last little while. (Image from the Merced Police Department, and found here.) In scrolling my afternoon news routine, I by accident spied a crime story from my local newspaper. Apparently, the photo above is of a man attempting to pass as a woman in the course of an…
Hot and getting hotter this noon Saturday in California’s Central Valley — we’re right now at 97-degrees with a wide-open, bright sunshine-filled afternoon ahead to reportedly maybe top out at 107 before the sun sets. Despite trying hard, I didn’t get put out early enough this morning to take a long walk (as normal) with…
Sad note this Friday morning: One of my most-favorite entertainers/actors of all time, Alan Arkin, has died at 89. He blew me away in “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming,” an odd, humane-funny, empathic flip during the height of the frightful, freaky Cold War — saw it on the big screen as a…
Clear and bright with temperatures climbing to under 100 this near-noon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley and the next couple of days we’ll join a goodly chunk of the rest of America with furnace-like conditions — the only thing, we’ll supposedly be a little cooler than, say, Texas, but free of apocalyptic smoke from…
Beyond the domestic tales of treachery with the MAGA/T-Rump Republicans, the Russian near-coup/treachery (or whatever) this past weekend continues to fester itself without any general relief — as been stated long before, what’s known is more unknown right now. Now nearly a week after news of the so-called coup/mutiny/insurrection was mounted by Russian private mercenary…
