War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Drizzling rain and chilly just past the noon hour Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — like the rest of mankind, we’re seemingly part of an environment going to shit in a hooped-wire basket. Due to the horror-chaos from the T-Rump and associates, climate change is no longer a vital subject matter, despite the clusterfck…
Rain again this near-noon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — a wet story of horror: (Illustration by Australian political cartoonist Fiona Katauskas, and found this morning at the Guardian.) In this terrible, dangerous, and surreal age of the T-Rump, there’s so much shit flooding the zone that a lot of serious particulars are swallowed…
Bright sunshine and way-too-warm temperatures this mid-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — a taste of what’s surely to come in a few short weeks, maybe a preview of a boiling-hot summer, which is no shock. We’re in the mid-80s right now with reportedly a chance to pop 90 before the day is out…
Rainy and cold this mid-morning Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — a crank in the levers of the real-deadly horror of the T-Rump, supposedly in the middle of winter: Via the Guardian this morning: A run of record-breaking global temperatures has continued, even with a La Niña weather pattern cooling the tropical Pacific. The…
Bright, way-clear sunshine tempered by a chilly breeze this late afternoon Thursday in California’s Central Valley — finally a distinct autumn day. Summer this year has been a bitch — our hottest ever — and it looked like it would never end. Ending quickly, too, could be our environment, not only for my location but for…
Clear, bright skies full of sunshine shortly after the noon hour Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley as summer days in the fall are maybe slacking off a bit as we make it into a real, actual autumn. Supposedly under triple-digit temperatures today (for the first time in a goodly while) and a reported drop…
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water: Details nutshell via the Guardian this afternoon: The latest system, Tropical Storm Milton, formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday. Forecasters expect the storm to quickly strengthen into a hurricane and rush toward Florida in the next few days. The National…
Intense, graphic warnings on tomorrow are profiled and presented today. Beyond the horrible images of Hurricane Helene now washing across media screens — those drone perspectives are a nightmare aren’t they, kind of creates a disjointed dreamscape similar to a surreal special-effects/CGI-laden Roland Emmerich movie, though, this is actually reality revealing Americans being violently overwhelmed…
Although a bit warm for this late in September, still near-picture-perfect out-of-doors this late afternoon Friday here in California’s Central Valley. Meanwhile, the out-of-doors elsewhere sucks like shit: ‘Bob Van Dillen, a meteorologist for Fox Weather, rescued a woman live on air while reporting from flooded Atlanta. ”I heard this lady screaming for help in…
Clear, bright, sunshine and way-pleasant temps this near-noon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — nicer here than the southern part of the state where wildfires and earthquakes are causing a shitstorm of anxiety. The shaking continues with a 3.4 magnitude quake near Malibu early this morning (yesterday a 4.7 in about the same spot)…
