War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration: ‘Pinocchio,’ by Enrico Mazzanti (1852-1910), found here). Overcast-gray skies this late-afternoon Monday here on California’s north coast — deep-cloudy just about all day, but the NWS forecasts ‘Widespread Rain‘ (1-3-inches at least) with ‘Strong Winds‘ (35-to-50-mph, gusts to 60 in some spots) starting tonight and flowing into Wednesday — winter be here. Meanwhile, today in…
(Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Agonizing Horse,’ found here). First post in a couple of weeks — I’ve been down in the Central Valley with a daughter and a follow-up appointment off my surgery last summer at UC Davis. Doc said I’m doing good, but he wants to see me again in three months. Here we go……
(Illustration found here). As our environmental situation shifts, the phrase, ‘climate change,’ and even ‘global warming,’ don’t express the reality — from Commondreams yesterday: “I’ve worked on this for 30 years and I’ve never been as worried as I am today,” Schellnhuber declared during the COP24 climate summit in Poland, arguing that even the language commonly…
(Illustration: Salvador Dali’s ‘Exploding Raphaelesque Head,’ found here). As the crookedly-corrupt cookie crumbles, petulant incompetent crime boss, the T-Rump, slapped snotty: — according to the UK’s Independent this morning: Donald Trump has reportedly cancelled the annual White House Christmas party for members of the media. The festive gathering has been hosted by presidents for decades,…
One of the more normal days in the West Wing — soon the T-Rump is going have a real-fractured meltdown, just wait and see: We might have known, somewhat-maybe understood the depth of the T-Rump’s arrogance while wallowing in his own ignorance, but then along comes the scene-of-a-situation today between House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi,…
(Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Self Portrait Facing Death‘ (June 30, 1972), was originally found here). Chilly-dark this Monday evening on California’s north coast, sunshine through-out the day, a little rain expected tomorrow, more sun Wednesday and Thursday. So it goes… Our current time frame is a period of out-of-the-ordinary, and whether political, environmental, or whatnot, the…
(Illustration: Artwork from the UN’s International Children’s Painting Competition, found here). Raindrops and gray — a wet-touch with color for this early-evening Sunday here on California’s north coast, the air all day clipped by some way-brisk wind — reportedly, should be sunny tomorrow, at least that’s what WunderBlog forecasts. More rain supposedly on Tuesday, followed by…
(Illustration found here). Oft quoted nowadays — though, a good description of the T-Rump world, or just about any random Republican operating anywhere — the somber warning of Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi from long, long ago, and far, far away: ‘“Mos Eisley spaceport: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We…
(Illustration: Donald Trump, ‘Basic Shapes,‘ by caricaturist/illustrator Chong Jit Leong, found here). As anticipated today, a couple of legal droppings on News Dump Friday. The first was for the T-Rump’s former trickster-lawyer, Michael Cohen, a pair of sentencing memos — and the second, a filing against the T-Rump’s way-back campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. Apparently, a…
A child will lead us, though, maybe too late — the UN climate conference in Katowice, Poland, is happening now, and today 15-year-old Greta Thunberg laid-down the real: “For 25 years countless people have come to the UN climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions…
