Babies vs Guns
October 25, 2012Jolting Joe Biden letting the baby cry during a speech yesterday in Ohio (via HuffPost): “I don’t blame that baby for crying,” he said, over audible wails from a child in the crowd. “You know…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
oiled up
October 24, 2012Overcast and rainy this morning along California’s northern coast — and it’s been a keen-edge cold, too, giving rise to the winter a-coming just around the corner. Our wetness is just part the season’s first…
Crying in a vacuum
October 23, 2012Last night another display of how US governance has seemingly reached the surreal level as a one-sided debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney revealed a GOP endorsement of a Democrat president. Romney agreed so…
Air Pocket
October 22, 2012Rain and deep darkness this morning on California’s northern coast, lending a sense of apprehension to this the beginning of a new work-week, and an acute awareness of something big is a-foot. Earthquakes, maybe —…
Life as lying
October 21, 2012Just about everybody but Republicans know Mitt Romney lies out his ass — if he can’t come up with any kind of falsehood, he’s speechless. Eclectablog takes a look at Politifact‘s bullshit meter: For statements…
Actual Actuality
October 19, 2012(Illustration found here). Last night at the Al Smith Memorial Dinner in New York, a big political-bullshit laugh-fest where the public-servant 1 percent pretends they’re human, Mitt Romney attempted some side-splitting humor: In discussing how…
Please, Bartender, or doctor
October 18, 2012Another clear sky this morning on California’s northern coast, stars twinkling and a slight cool breeze, though, a ground mist like yesterday could spoil a thunderous sunrise. After a little spat of rain earlier this…
The Look that binds
October 17, 2012(Illustration found here). Last night’s presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney was a fun-fest, stomp-nosed look at how ludicrous US politics has become, but did allow at last a small peek into how…
Debating Reality
October 16, 2012Raining this early Tuesday morning up here along California’s northern coast, the first of the so-called rainy season, though, it did get wet back in July. And it’s fairly warm, temps expected to be in…
Oil and the needle done
October 15, 2012One wonders at the cost, and the why: Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner broke the speed of sound — at one point hitting Mach 1.24, according to a team official — during his record-setting jump from…