War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration out front: Edvard Munch‘s ‘The Scream,’ lithograph version, found here.) This early-evening Wednesday is still too premature to adequately address the absolute horror shock from this morning. I turned out the lights last night before going to bed, even after re-checking CNN for further election update results (as a stress-reducer of sorts, I’d been watching “Castle”…
(Image: ‘Election Day Brawl,’ by Woody Guthrie, and found here.) Overcast and cool this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley. In this new back to the old standard time of darkness coming too quickly in the PM is depressing enough. Finally, that day has come — Election Day 2024! And so far, with all…
Bright sunshine tempered with chilled temperatures this late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley. If this is Monday, tomorrow is tomorrow no matter how you look at it. Of course, it will be Tuesday, and, of course, it will be election day in the US of A — an election like none other I’ve witnessed…
Sunshine and clear-blue skies just past noon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley. Nice weather for an insane presidential election — way-beyond grasping crazy how close this race is even in the presence of someone that’s not only a deplorable, asshole piece of shit, but also freaking nuttier-than-a-fruitcake and freaking slobbering crazy — and it…
Our news cycle nowadays is shit-fire way-depressing, overflowing with outlandish circumstances and it seems to be getting worse. Sad a humongous wad of people are suffering, from natural disasters to man-made influenced catastrophes — a lot of hard work to keep sane in the midst of it all. Actually, a pile of smoldering shit. And…
Crystal-clear skies and lots of bright sunshine just after the noon hour Sunday here in California’s Central Valley as the fall season finally starts to take hold of our weather. It’s been especially nice lately after we experienced two or three summers this year — autumn seemed to take forever to arrive and ultimately, it’s…
Some sense of a feeling. So far, this particular year has been another case of the ‘fours.’ Apparently, from what I can gather from within myself as I age (76 next month), the years of my life ending in ‘4‘ have had some special, striking significance — except 1954, as I was too young to…
Clear skies and on the coolish-side temperatures — comparatively speaking — here a bit after the noon hour Friday in California’s Central Valley as for the first time in a shitload of space we’re under 90 degrees as a high today, shaping up for finally a full onslaught of the fall season. Weather shifts are…
It’s sunny and comfortable this Wednesday early afternoon in California’s Central Valley — maybe autumn is finally here to stay. Meanwhile, the T-Rump is not only a lying asshole, but way-unaware he’s fully and completely dumb as a charred tree stump: Details via The New Republic a couple of hours ago: During an hour-and-a-half-long interview…
Serious legal business this afternoon that’s scorched the InterWebs (info via The New York Times): Made public by Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the Federal District Court in Washington, the 165-page brief was partly redacted but expansive, adding details to the already extensive record of how Mr. Trump lost the race but attempted nonetheless to…
