War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration: ‘Geopoliticus Child Watching The Birth Of A New Man,’ print, by Salvador Dali, and found here). Another screw of the clock face, and it’s Labor Day again, though, here in California’s Central Valley the sense of still being summer (not the end of it) with triple-digit temperatures forecast for today and the rest of…
Another boilermaker day — 109-degrees outside right now (late-afternoon Monday in California’s Central Valley) — as we spin through work-week kick-off with shit hitting the fan everywhere. Probably the most-historic event today was an end to an inspired bit of action begun a month shy 20 years ago, but quickly shit the roost, and now…
A faded-thin Mars ambiance to our environment again this mid-day Friday here in California’s Central Valley, an unwelcome aspect after a few days of near-normal weather of bright sunshine and clear-blue skies — now life outside is all rusty brown. Off the local NWS forecast for today and this weekend uses the words ‘widespread haze,’…
Warm but pleasant this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — supposedly below normal temperatures the last few days (and felt it, too!), but back to triple-digits by the weekend as summer quickly drags to a close. Weather nowadays is just weather inside a Twilight Zone episode. Along with a shitload of other stuff,…
As a nation, we’re stuck between a rock and a hard place — the rock is the COVID Delta variant, and the hard place are Republicans — even with a vaccine receiving FDA approval, the death cult is intent on killing all of us: Yet first, they’re killing themselves — the Sturgis, South Dakota, motorcycle…
A crutch retort from the unvaccinated crazies got snatched away this Monday morning: ‘The Food and Drug Administration has formally approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The widely anticipated decision replaces the emergency use authorization granted by the agency last December.‘ No excuses now says Joe Biden: In the stream of events, this supposedly is a major…
Latest installments of the Afghan-disaster chronicles this Friday afternoon, and how fast the week when shit happens. A cascade of events, going from reality to denial. One note of the extreme measures of getting to the airport — via the Guardian‘s live blog this afternoon: The Pentagon said on Friday that the US used three…
(Illustration: ‘Pokrytectvo‘ (The Hypocrisy), by Slovakian artist Rudolf Rabatin, and found here). The biggest obstacle right now in getting any kind of a handle on COVID is the nasty and ignorant pushback from MAGA hatters and other nit-twit assholes fighting science and common sense. A real shitty horror is the massive hypocrisy from the upper…
Some news be good today: Rescuers on Tuesday pulled 16 people out alive from rubble in Brefèt, a town in Les Cayes in the Southern department, three days after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the area, according to Haiti’s Civil Protection agency. The newest latest Axios/Ipsos poll shows most Americans might be near-sane: Two-thirds (64-percent) support…
As this Tuesday morning is a nasty news day already — between Afghanistan and COVID the shit’s in the fire. And to somewhat lessen the shit-fall, a post of mystery for all of us living on this planet in a webbed, multi-faceted conundrum of real-time crazy — -Enigma, and “Return to Innocence” of the imagination:…
