War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
An unexpected pleasure: Via the Guardian‘s live blog: With the flick of his pen, Biden signed into law a $1.9tn coronavirus relief package, cementing the first major legislative victory of his presidency. “This historic legislation is about rebuilding the backbone of this country and giving the people of this nation, working people, the middle class…
Now that the American Rescue Plan has passed both Houses of Congress and heading for Joe Biden;s signature to combat the wide effects of the COVID pandemic, it’s way-time for passage of For the People Act H.R. 1, which will protect our democracy: This historic legislation responds to twin crises facing our country: the attack…
Midst of crazy there’s always music. During the news surfing this afternoon, looking for whatever, I spied another song from The Running Mates I hadn’t seen before — I don’t know their whole catalog for shit’s sake. I’ve become way-appreciative of the amazing husband/wife duo the last few weeks as their covers of some great…
(Illustration: A coin issued by Brutus in the autumn of 42 B.C., encrypted with EID MAR (Eidibus Martiis – on the ‘Ides of March’), and was found here). By Eva M. Hardly a surprise. However, I just couldn’t help but shake my head in disgust yesterday when I read that part of Joe Biden’s relief…
In context of this particular Thursday, the news cycle is getting old. Generally the same daily shit twisted as if in a Twilight Zone-influenced-Groundhog Day episode, and then repeats the repeating. Against the grain, though, we must continue to move forward. However, I did have a nice experience due to a couple videos that crossed…
In lieu of real news to shit on, I’ve decided to start a new series commemorating a vital segment of movies — the opening sequence, also sometimes called the title sequence, which in the best films sets the tone for the movie itself. A shitoad of recent movies don’t have opening credits anymore, they go…
Beautiful late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley — sunshine and warm temps starting about noon following a foggy, chilly morning. Weather is way-oblique in its own existence, fog to sunshie, cold to hot, sometimes in minutes, and sometimes — maybe most-of-the-time — has an original game plan, too, and we humans are out of…
(NOTE: This post the first-ever from an outside contributor, or someone not me. Hopefully, many more to come). (Illustration found here). By Eva M. Several days ago I was skimming the headlines when one caught my eye that felt, as my dad used to say, like a slap in the face with a cold wet…
(Illustration from the UN’s International Children’s Painting Competition, and found here). One of the top-tier news stories the last few cycles has been the weather in Texas, and really, throughout the southern US as a whole, and really, weather in general and how grisly our living enviroment is right now. Although here in California’s Central…
Short evening as I’m making calzones for my daughter’s birthday. During dinner we have a TV-streaming routine and currently we’re about to end the first season of “Snowpiercer,” and it’s a dandy. Except it’s pretty intense and we’re only good for one episode a night: And we then switch to something way-lightly — for awhile…
