War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Seated Pierrot,’ found here). Clear and a bit chilly this Friday evening on California’s north coast, a sunshine-splashed day and didn’t feel quite so cold as the last week or so. Supposedly, a maybe-about 50-percent chance of rain next Wednesday, until then dry with cloud cover and fog — ’bout normal for…
A direct consequence of the T-Rump code: A brightly-nauseating example of the open nastiness of the T-Rump era. On Friday, a bunch of young, high-school assholes from Kentucky, wearing MAGA hats, accosted Native American veteran Nathan Phillips. The video is all over the InterWebs. In response, the mother of one of the kids claimed “black…
(Illustration: Salvador Dali’s ‘Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion,’ found here). A pathological nut-case getting ready to speak to America — T-Rump is scheduled for a TV speech in about half-an-hour, and maybe the end will ring. Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair this morning on the T-Rump’s world: It’s the president’s personal Alamo. Inside…
Clear and chilly this Thursday evening on California’s north coast, another fine fall day. Speaking of fall, not only are we disarmed by the overwhelming criminal, ignorant antics of the T-Rump cartel, the entirety of the GOP is now no more than a collection of anti-democratic-system operators — frightful shit taking place in Wisconsin, Michigan,…
An in-real-time synopsis of today’s T-Rump events, a view of America to the world, as presented by a villainous-moron, scared shit-less of the truth (USAToday): On Twitter, the former developer described a proposed development his company pursued in Russia as “very legal” and “very cool,” pushing back on criticism that has emerged after his former…
(Illustration found here). Even as the life in 2018 continues to resemble a terrifying jigsaw puzzle, we still have our illusions of escape beyond a reality gone berserk. This particular post has been collecting dust in my Draft bin more than five years — I’ve played with it, moved words/pictures around, but otherwise left the…
One of the great lying, hypocritical assholes of our age, Mitch McConnell, tweeted yesterday afternoon: ‘My latest Op-Ed: Will Dems work with us, or simply put partisan politics ahead of the country?‘ Sen. Jeff Flake might be growing a pair — maybe going out the door emboldens. A bipartisan bill to protect Robert Mueller’s investigation was…
End of the work week, yet the work never seems to find an end. Despite it all, apparently there was indeed a big-blue wave on Tuesday — I guess the horror of the T-Rump sours feeling any kind of a sweet victory, even a fairly-big one, like winning back the House — in retrospect, a…
Two days later doth display our misplaced American system (via the Guardian this morning): Among the most eye-catching was a statistic showing Democrats led Republicans by more than 12 million votes in Senate races, and yet still suffered losses on the night and failed to win a majority of seats in the chamber. … “The rise…
In the aftermath of a day after, the shit’s still with us — despite gains made in the election, the T-Rump continues. Charles P. Pierce at Esquire this afternoon on news of the AG turnabout: At the very least, this is the most serious threat that the Mueller investigation has faced since it was launched. In…
