War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
If this is Saturday, then three days and counting until Tuesday. Although there’s still time left to make the right decision and vote, democracy is scrambling to stay afloat — despite losing an hour in the morning. Obama in Pennsylvania this afternoon: Nutshell note via The New York Times this afternoon: In his remarks in…
(Illustration out front: ‘Twin Towers,’ by Preston Sandlin, and found here.) Another observance of one of America’s more recent, most-traumatic experiences — this morning marks the 21st anniversary of the first foreign attack on the US since Pearl Harbor. Although today’s solemn and sober reminders are expressed over much of the media, the major news stories and…
In keeping with his ‘Big Fucking Deal’ of a presidency, Joe Biden today made a deep dive into the future — he finally announced nipping student loan debt, and although the action benefits all Americans in the long run, Republicans whined like little shit-babies without the irony of shamelessness. Biden’s been on the cusp of…
A quick update on my novel, “Brown-Eyed Girl With A Cold Corona,” published back in March — I should have done this sooner, but here it is. Initial post on the publication here, and my Amazon/Kindle site here (you can also sample the e-book’s first couple of chapters as a tease, if you’d like). Apparently,…
Not surprising news, though, invalid if Vlad goes nuclear. Near mid-day Saturday here in California’s Central Valley and the war in Ukraine continues to meltdown the news cycle. In this case, preparations for handling an incompetently handled invasion: Despite the resistance of the Ukrainian military against the Russkie horde, in time (we’re only 10 days…
Hey to the way-few readers of Compatible Creatures — I’ll most-likely not be posting for a while. My children will be in town this week — we’ve got an Airbnb not too far away and it looks to be a fun time. A lot of shit will happen — or not — before I post…
Some light rain this late-afternoon Friday here in California’s Central Valley, maybe today’s sprinkles a small preview for the gushers expected statewide this coming weekend. The West Coast is forecast to experience a pincer-like weather operation, a ‘bomb cyclone‘ coming from the north, and an ‘atmospheric river‘ from the south (sometimes called ‘Pineapple Express’), which…
Air gets way-weighty when it gets hot. Outside just minutes ago, with the temperature reportedly 104-degrees this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley, the air felt really, really heavy. And we’re forecast for triple-digits until dark, still about three hours away. Enough of the whine. Although it’s uncomfortable here, we’re not in the real…
Some more climate-related news this Wednesday afternoon, and as such with the normal, seems like more bad news for the planet — and a quicker-major increase of CO2 into the air: Evidence collected in the study was historic — using two sets of measurement gauges, one on the ground, and another taken by airplane, and…
(Illustration: Satellite pix via Copernicus, the EU’s earth observation program, depicting the heatwave which blazed across Serbia this past weekend; image found here). Even as the Western US boiled this past week, and the Pacific Northwest is boiling right now — here today in California’s Central Valley we’re a balmy, nice 90-degrees, but the heat-level…
