a Worry worthy of serious
June 16, 2013This seemed appropriate: The radar is picking up a line of thundershowers which extends from a point 9 miles NNE of Sicorgus, New Jersey, along a line and 6 miles either side of the line…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
obama one
June 15, 2013Since the election last November, the US has witnessed maybe a watershed shift with life in America, and especially the view of President Obama. Just a bit more than a month after the polls had…
lost In the ether
June 14, 2013(Illustration found here). A kind of shaker coming in the wake of the NSA/Internet/surveillance weirdness is the news today of someone pulling off a “sophisticated” hack late last year of CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s…
Hardware Hardly
June 14, 2013Yipee! Friday! Overcast and gloomy again this morning on California’s north coast, but like yesterday and the day before and the day before that, the sun will come and all will be happy. Still high…
‘Way to go, girls’
June 14, 2013Yesterday afternoon, two kids from my town introduced President Obama at a White House reception for LGBT Pride Month, and they nailed it, even outshining the president. Twin sisters and third-graders Zea and Luna Weiss-Wynne…
Group suck
June 13, 2013Americans’ view of Congress would be laughable if the national situation didn’t suck so bad. And Americans know it: Americans’ confidence in Congress as an institution is down to 10 percent, ranking the legislative body…
Poll the secrets
June 13, 2013Another dark, gloomy and overcast morning here on California’s north coast, though, as a Thursday, we’re much closer to the weekend than we were yesterday. Which does say something, but what? And as times passes,…
Beset the blowback
June 12, 2013Another overcast early morning here on California’s north coast, this the mid-week edition of life as society goes semi-berserk, or something. Blowback: An intelligence term for adverse, unintended consequences of secret operations. The CIA first…
‘Shoot is just shit with two …’
June 11, 2013Overcast and quiet this early Tuesday on California’s coast, and despite some breaks in the cloud cover, there’s no view of the mysterious Gamma Delphinid meteor shower expected to pass earth this morning. Somebody will shoot…
Keystone Kops in charge
June 10, 2013High overcast with a slightly-chilled wind this way-early Monday as we carrom into another new work week, leaving behind the rat-tailed dump of private-first-class droppings — or what’s now called, ‘Boundless Informant.’ Apparently, there’s no…