War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
White-bright sky this Wednesday afternoon on California’s north coast — way-thin clouds floating about the skyline filters sunshine into a muted-pale hue, which on turns, can be really vivid. Couple that shit with a slight breeze, temps in the low-60s, and there you got it — seemingly not unpleasant at all in the big, old…
In just more than week, it will be eight years since moving to Humboldt County from down on California’s Central Coast — what a trip a couple of days make. As a recent retiree, I’ve discovered this place ain’t bad — and apparently while working it ain’t bad, either. This morning I browsed the US…
Thick-gray overcast this early Monday on California’s north coast, supposedly a rain-off-and-on episode this week, about 40 percent today, down to a ‘chance‘ rest of the time. Rain/snow water is a major-major topic in California, but actually it’s more of a ‘tale of two droughts,’ as statewide reservoirs go dry, our own uniquely full Ruth Lake has…
Sunshine mingled in with a lot of free-floating clouds this Saturday afternoon on California’s north coast, and once again the weekend, which since retirement, not my favorite day-episodes of the week. Long overdue. Science examines the “contact high” (or “buzz“) — from New York Magazine on Thursday and ‘“…the first study … to examine the…
In the light of Baltimore and America’s racial tensions right now, the source of ‘cool‘ really not so cool — from Philosophy Now: ‘The aesthetics of cool developed mainly as a behavioral attitude practiced by black men in the United States at the time of slavery. Slavery made necessary the cultivation of special defense mechanisms…
Bright sunshine sparkled by a brisk ocean breeze this Sunday afternoon on California’s north coast, and quiet, except for the occasional neighbor-kid noise. Meanwhile, back far to the east, an aging sun made some noise, too — Hillary Clinton in the techno-granny guise of the tweet: “I’m running for president. Everyday Americans need a champion,…
Spied this article last weekend from Psychology Today, which explained somewhat the perpetual narrative in my own brain, and current, actual state of my mental state — keynote: One of the original pieces of research on the subject of mind wandering was completed by psychologists Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University,…
Thinly-overcast this early Friday morning on California’s north coast, producing some faded sunshine, which is better than none at all. And the wind is down, too, also a game-changer this close to the shoreline — nice and warm so far. A decent-sized rain system expected by Sunday, maybe earlier, and supposedly could last until the…
Bright and chilly this early Wednesday, the first day of April, and the day of the dullard and cretin, full of the ridiculously inadequate. A huge difference in heat, between overcast/ground fog, and a crystal-clear sun rise — we’re still sitting at 38-degrees, and from at least my tinny vantage point, some 10 degrees colder…
Thick, gray clouds, hanging low this early Friday on California’s north coast — and a bit on the cold side, too, with a slight, chilled breeze. Supposedly, though, we’re to receive heavy sunshine sometime today, and on into tomorrow, maybe rain by late Sunday. Weather forecasting, however, and like a lot of other assorted shit,…
