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…

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…

(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…

This blog, ‘Compatible Creatures,’  sprang to life April 24, 2007, and here we be… That way-first post was named ‘Bruce Maulden’s Blog Now Online,’ and carried just two words, “Woo-hoo!” — and later on that…

(Illustration: ‘We’ve Got Your Back,’ by Linda Carmel, and found here). Even as Republicans worry themselves senseless about ‘freedoms’ with the handling of the COVID pandemic, polling out today reflects a different viewpoint of a…

(Illustration: ‘Hillary Clinton,’ by WorkingWoman, and found here). Enough of the news today, full of screaming shouts and ugly, nasty language — Marjorie Taylor Greene is one mean, cruel, whack job, and the whole Republican…

(Illustration found at National Geographic). Sunny and warm this early-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley, way-nice weather comapred to nature’s shitstorm for the rest of the country, mostly pretty-opposite to my neck of the…

(Illustration by Barry Blitt, found at The New Yorker). In political fallout from such horrid weather the country is experiencing right now, beyond the human misery and death, most-glaring is just how awful Republican are…