War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Rainy and warm this early Thursday on California’s north coast, another segment on winter 2014. And the word, ‘warm,’ is a major factor here — at 4 in the freakin’ morning, it’s near 55 degrees, which is about the temperature of mid-day around these parts. Meanwhile, way to the east, the US Atlantic seaboard is…
High overcast, quiet and dry this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, and the feel is not unpleasant. Soundless and near-weather-less here, but back in the US southeast, a possible “catastrophic event” via an enormous winter storm bearing down on the huddled masses — another episode of “global weirding” becoming more the ‘new normal’ in…
Clear and chilly this early Wednesday here on California’s north coast, the work-week moving right along, though, not fast enough. News sprouting out this morning is fairly bland, or continuous-ugly in nature (i.e., the US farm bill bullshit) as the eyeballs of the world begin to sharply-focus on the upcoming winter games, starting this Friday…
Another off little Eddie’s never-ending entrée-menu (via the Guardian): The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of “leaky” smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, that transmit users’ private information across the internet, according to top secret documents… Some apps, the documents state,…
In light of yet another shooting yesterday at the Columbia Mall in Maryland and the intense, accelerated pace in which these horrific events operate — earlier this month, a study on “active shootings in public settings” and time: The average median time for police to respond to these incidents (where data was available) is three…
Heavy ground fog this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, which in turn makes the moist air a little-bit warmer — meanwhile, on the eastern US seaboard today winter keeps on keeping on with storms to drop near a foot of snow. In all the shit going-down nowadays, this a really-good, feel-good story: “I went over…
We elect presidents in the hope the asshole will handle shit correctly, keep war and pestilence at bay. Some Americans pay more attention than others, and sometimes can actually see the smell — history provides the reality. When I started this blog in 2007, most of the subject matter was unfortunately somehow connected to war,…
Clear and moon-struck once again this early Thursday on California’s north coast as we bask in a spring/summer outbreak of warm weather. A stalled high pressure out in the Pacific has kept the state warm and rain-free — the first is way-nice, the second, shitty-as-can-be. Also shitty is the amount of disgraceful shenanigans eating up…
Clear and feeling a bit warmer, too, this early Wednesday on California’s north coast — the moon a bright light in the western sky. Mid-week move-a-long. A couple of privacy spots this morning, both leading the US toward one huge surveillance state of affairs. The first is the use of drones in America — law…
Crystal-clear and cold this way-too-early Tuesday on California’s north coast as we tumble/plunge on into the work week. A near-full moon hangs like a white, round pin-prick out over the Pacific. A moon full of half-baked crazies — take Republican Jim Inhofe (Asshole-OK), please. He cranks the climate-change throttle: “They don’t get away with it…
