War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration: Woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, ‘The Great Wave,’ found here). In human behavior it seems, accepting belief in a nut-job conspiracy theory and handling COVID-19 misinformation are two distinct dumb-ass positions. This for sure has been an era of conspiracy theories, pop-up delusions and deceptions galore, but with the virus it…
Yesterday was one of those watershed-type days. Personally, I received an excellent follow-up medical review at UC Davis off my cancer surgery more than two years ago (next exam in a year), and nationally, Joe Biden became POTUS. The latter also a big thumbs-up in the health category. And this morning, a spring in the…
In a matter of hours, an era of weird-ass shit of constant lying and whining and bitching comes to an end. America did indeed have a first with the T-Rump — a way-obvious villain in the White House. All the shitty presidents past, James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, so forth, and even Dick Nixon, at least…
By this rime tomorrow, we’ll be in a brand-new timeframe, hopefully similar like before-timeframe, like Before Times, like before the T-Rump shit on the country. If only we could erase memory (Republicans will indeed practice amnesia about the T-Rump timeframe), but we will be stained in the brain for years to come. Despite three years…
Sunny and warm this near-midday Sunday in California’s Central Valley, surfing the InterWebs, though, not shockingly there’s a whole lot of shitty shit from all over and from just about every direction — COVID-19 still spinning out of control (yesterday, 3,286 Americans died); national as well as some state capitols braced for nefarious actors arriving…
Beyond the insurrectional riot at the nation’s Capitol last Wednesday, a major concern is the pandemic and the mass of maskless assholes both coming from outside the building, but also from Republican Congresscritters who in spiteful, arrogant disclaimers refused to cover their nasty faces. And the result, an innocent victim: These people do not give…
Consequences off the terrible T-Rump-induced rumble/riot yesterday at/in the nation’s Capitol carries not only grave democracy overtones, but also dire medical issues, like for instance, a surging-ass pandemic that’s spread by breathing on one another. On top of that, the last two days were countrywide records for COVID-19 deaths — 3,865 deaths yesterday, 3,733 on…
In this first Sunday of the new year, the T-Rump can’t help his malignant self, cursing COVID-19 numbers and revealing once again he doesn’t give a shit people are getting sick and dying. Via ABC News this morning: A staggering 299,087 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the United States on Saturday, according to…
First day of a brand-spanking new year, yet the dreadful shadow of 2020 will follow us for a long time, Connecting rod between calendar time is COVID-19 with the nefarious antics of the T-Rump the linchpin grasping the two periods together. One showcase aspect of this scenario is the T-Rump-Wall and the deaths from the…
Fading sunshine outside this early-evening Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, the end of 2020 now just a few hours away. In the backyard, all quiet (Merced city traffic in the distance, the exception) but for a gaggle of birds chirping madly away hidden behind a small thicket of bamboo — nice. Meanwhile, maybe we’re…
