War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Haboob: A strong wind that occurs primarily along the southern edges of the Sahara in The Sudan and is associated with large sandstorms and duststorms and may be accompanied by thunderstorms. It usually lasts about three hours, is most common during the summer, and may blow from any direction. A haboob may transport huge quantities…
Once again, another $20 worth of gas in my Jeep yesterday, the pump price now at $4.09 a gallon for regular, down a whole dime since the last visit 10 days ago. Gas prices are dropping, which in the short run for consumers is great news, but the look of the whole oil process makes one…
Always a skeptic, and although never a doubt about global warming, the speed in which this shit will strike hard at everyone’s daily lives has always seemed a bit understated. Report after report, study after study indicated the real mess of climate change will come in the future — somewhere down the line in 2020,…
Standing on the corner Suitcase in my hand Jack is in his corset and jane is in her vest And me I’m in a rock and roll band Riding in a stutz bearcat jim Those were different times And the poets studied rules of verse And all the ladies rolled there eyes Sweet jane Sweet…
(Illustration of Edward Hopper‘s ‘Morning Sun‘ found here). Here we are on a wee-early Thursday morning trying to slop through the night’s news and nothing other than the usual war, pestilence and grief, with much emphasis on war, jumps out at me — another daylight-coming on an earth eat-up with bad shit. Nothing seems to…
Sitting here along California’s northern coast on a quiet Tuesday morning — the first day of summer — the world’s largest ocean continues its massive movement a couple of miles away, and even way out there in the darkness of the Pacific, the growing danger of climate change is rippling, creating a much-more shitty future…
On Friday, I put another $20 worth of fuel in the old Jeep and the pump price was the same as the last time — $4.19 a gallon for regular. Whop-pee! Isn’t that something? The excitement is not in the price, but that it didn’t go higher — hard to understand these numbers at the…
The very most-wonderful dog I ever had was a Springer Spaniel (very similar to the one shown at left) named Bogie, one sweet animal given to me as a puppy. He was a pure breed, his parents two upstanding Springers themselves, and Bogie was a vital part of our family for more than a dozen…
‘Danger, Will Robinson, Danger.’ After bickering like a bunch of rich, spoiled brats — which they are — members of OPEC, the scary, big oil producing cartel, busted up its meeting yesterday so out-of-line with each other they couldn’t decide on anything. Ali Ibrahim Naimi, oil minister for Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s biggest producer, called it “one…
On Friday, I put another $20 worth of gas in my Jeep and at $4.29 a gallon for regular — surprise, surprise, it cost the same as a week ago — first time that’s happened in a long while. However, a quick trip yesterday to deliver a hamster-like rat just 10 miles south to Eureka…