War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Last night, residents of South Florida on the Atlantic coast got a thrill, and probably a quick scare across the skies above them (per NPR): And from another angle: Scrolling around the InterWebs this morning, I couldn’t get any confirmation the object was the projected asteroid scheuled to pass earth last night — from EarthSky…
(Illustration: ‘The Starry Night,’ by Vincent van Gogh, and found here). A break from the blood-thirsty throes of the nowadays with some idiotic instances of musical crazy awash with non-connecting vibes of absolutely wackiness — beats the living-shit out of T-Rump calling MoscowMitch a sonofabitch, wouldn’t you say, an ass calling the hole? And first,…
Anyone who does any driving — Before Times and the COVID pandemic, of course — can see our roadways, bridges and assorted, related structures are shot-to-shit and have been in crappy-dangerous condition for a long time. In fact, you have to go back 65 years to the last activity with our transportation/electrical grid complex and…
Here again a Friday. Lately, it seems Monday-thru-Friday whips past in a blur, the weekends slightly slower in time, a more soft few hours, but still clips past frighteningly quick. Right-exactly-now becomes history in a blink. And after a second of two, we’re suddenly a quarter ways into a once new year. And the news…
Jolting Joe Biden continues on a roll as he’s expected to propose a $2 trillion infrastructure plan today during an event in Pittsburgh — supposedly the first of two parts, the ‘American Jobs Plan‘ would not only re-build our transportation system, but invest in care for elderly and disabled Americans, create more affordable housing, refurbish…
Although we’re more than a week into Spring (March 20), the weather today here In Merced, located strategically about middle of California’s Central Valley, feels more like summer than any kind of flowering coolness of Easter season. Walking Leroy this morning, I had to remove my hoodie/sweatjacket for the first time this year, and proceed…
Here we go again in an attempt to get out from underneath the shit-weight of the politics and pandemic mixed-tape of horror. This is the fifth in our ‘Destination‘ series (last one here) and includes music from the past drummed-up mostly in acoustic tones flushed with the nowadays. And once again a find in my…
When I read about this particular subject this morning, I was kind of floored. Despite this being right now and not 1975, Joe Biden’s team needs to re-evauate this situation pretty quick. Paul Waldman at The Washington Post earlier today: ‘But what it shows is that the federal government is in many ways still gripped…
(Illustration found here). Memory is a weird-ass commodity, especially as you get older. Events, people, places and things are stored in the brain and are supposedly right there for whenever needed, with or without being invited, and sometimes with or without that recollection being real. Twenty years seems a long time, but in reality, it’s…
Living through this perilous age has caused pessimism to be forcibly the norm, however, events the past few weeks has seemingly shifted that view around a bit. Now we have a perception that a return to ‘normal’ (whatever that was/is) might be close at hand — even polls reflect such: Optimism is becoming the norm in…
