Compatible Creatures by Bruce Maulden
War, Politics, and Life
Today is a personal anniversary of sorts — on this date in 2007, I walked into Cask & Flask Liquors, located in the McKinleyville Shopping Center, right next to the Safeway grocery store, in McKinleyville, California — about two miles, maybe less, from the Pacific Ocean — and applied for a job. Nothing unusual so…
A bit overcast and quiet this early Wednesday on California’s north coast as we reach mid-week work style. There’s just way-too-many days between Monday and Friday. And speaking of ganja, especially up here in the pot-growing center of the entire universe, a bunch of well-respected economic brainiacs have called for the eternally-foolish, 40-year-old drug war to…
Overcast this early Tuesday on California’s north coast with rain pretty hard at times, but mostly just drizzle as the work week progresses on down the daily line. We’re forecast for rain every day through the rest of this week and on into next — normal conditions sort of for this area, though, ‘rain,’ usually…
Overcast, some ground fog and really quiet this Wednesday morning on California’s north coast — the environment typical for this area. Yesterday about the same. Fog in the morning, clearing with bright sunshine in the afternoon, but coupled with a strong, chilly wind. All’s normal on the Lost Coast. Surfing the news sites this morning…
No-more-excuses point, in a kind of watershed moment this morning — via the Guardian: Catastrophic climate change can be averted without sacrificing living standards, according to a landmark UN report published on Sunday. It concludes the transformation required to a world of clean energy and the ditching of dirty fossil fuels is eminently affordable. My…
Thick ground fog and a deep quiet this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, normal for this time of year, and pretty-much the look of the place all the time. Gray mist, then sunshine about noon, or so. Is America going to shit in a wire basket? George Jr. once blubbered, “We don’t torture.” Yet…
A bit of an overcast this dark and chilled Monday on California’s north coast as no matter how hard I tried, this is Monday again. Start of another work week, which although appears from this vantage point as long and torturous, but will seemingly pass like the quick-snap of slender, feminine fingers — Friday on…
Overcast and foggy with a chill in the air this early Sunday on California’s north coast — but if predictions are near-about correct, and we follow the course of the past week or so, sunshine and clear skies are in the immediate future. In an increasingly contrarian world, though, who in his-right-mind can predict shit?…
Clear and quiet this early Monday on California’s north coast, with the outside air feeling a bit more on the warmer side than the last few days. Two big rain storms are expected tomorrow night/maybe early Wednesday, and then again on Friday — big storms, but too little for the any drought assistance. Meteorologist Duane Dykema:…
A shrewd business sense in the new age of public munchies — from the UK’s Independent this morning: Thirteen-year-old Danielle Lei set up her cookie stall outside of the clinic in San Francisco and was welcomed by patients and staff. Danielle sold out of her first batch within 45 minutes, according to the clinic, which is…
