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…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
‘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…
New fit to reality
June 9, 2013A little overcast, and a bit more chilly this Sunday morning on California’s north coast, and already I’ve been drinking in enough InterWeb-shit on leaking bad stuff and whistleblowers in general, making the pointing out…
Dress warmly
June 8, 2013Crystal-clear and really, really warm this Saturday afternoon on California’s north coast, and with a temperature right now of 74-degrees, this is the ultimate in summer — yet with summer still a couple of weeks…
What, me worry?
June 7, 2013“Fort Meade has 18 acres of mainframe computers underground. You’re talking to your wife on the phone and you use the word ‘bomb,’ ‘president,’ ‘Allah,’ any of a hundred keywords, the computer recognizes it, automatically…