War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
As Joe Biden gets ready to make his first speech to a joint session of Congress tonight, rolling with a theme of “America is on the move again,” there’s a bit of history, too: ‘He’ll deliver a speech more than a year into the pandemic with the smallest audience in recent memory and a backdrop…
Where does the asshole stop? Tucker Carlson is not only an unmitigated liar, but anti-societal in his rantigs about masks and the fever dream of freedoms. Indeed the horrors of irony are so lost on the right-handed nutjobs creating chaos in a dangerous environment. Despite the deaths of 572,850 Americans in just a bit more…
A horrible side effect of the COVID pandemic is a shift of resources from the Before Times normal health/medical operations, tests and other actions used to combat ‘regular’ issues like childhood immunizations and other disease treatments to a fulll-throttle push to gain a handle on the coronavirus. We could be in a world of hurt…
One of the scarier aspects of COVID-19 is its changing weirdness, not only in the quickly sprouting variants and mutations of the original coronavirus, but how science can do so much in the time we have — COVID is only about 18-19 months old, we here in the US have known about it now for…
Meanwhile, beyond the shooting of guns and the killing thereof, the immediate COVID threat continues to expand with the possibility that even vaccines available, there’s enough assholes who won’t take a shot to keep the US from beating the virus — Republican are so shitting on this country. We’re about to reach a weird-ass milestone…
One really-big major problem in securing a handle on the COVID pandemic is asshole Republicans, as way-witnessed this morning in a one-sided debate between slipknot, nit-twit Gym Jordan and Anthony Fauci during testimony at a House Oversight coronavirus subcommittee hearing, and the shit didn’t end well. Jordan is emblematic of the self-ignorant cruelty of Republicans,…
Beyond the political idiocy of Republicans, today one who doesn’t understand satire, and for a couple of weeks another who’s been upgraded from just fucked to royally fucked to a subject matter really out-distancing all of our so-called problems right now, which is climate change, really a climate crisis. A runaway fright train barreling down…
Finally off the shit list — today Merced County where I live skipped up a notch from the worse in California. From the Merced Sun-Star this morning: Merced County officials say they received good news from the state on Wednesday, as they were given permission to move into the red tier for reopening the economy.…
(Illustration: ‘Landscape of Change,’ waterolor by Jill Pelto, and found here). Along with COVID killing people all across the planet (according to John Hopikins University, as of this afternoon, 563,375 Americans have died, 2,951,968 worldwide), the pandemic will cause problems well into the future, which will have treacherous effects on humankind’s ability to function in…
Although I received my second COVID-19 vaccine shot this morning, Merced County where I reside is still in California’s worse purple tier category as apparently the rest of the state seems to be finally getting out from under the coronavirus blanket — per the Merced Sun-Star last Tuesday: Merced County has lagged behind others in…
