War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Overcast and gray this afternoon on California’s north coast, but the outside feels warm, almost an ironic-balmy for around here — temperatures in the mid 60s, a wind whispering from the north, totally-not unpleasant. A surprise for me, weather-wise, was news of another chaotic, deadly storm, this one/this time was in the Mediterranean, dubbed Cyclone Cleopatra,…
Despite all my crying and slobbering, it’s Monday again! And this early morning finds itself clear and cold on California’s north coast — weather better than most. One big climate question answered: Two university scientists have found that the “pause” or “hiatus” in global temperatures can be largely explained by a failure of climate researchers to…
Clear and chilly this Friday morning here on California’s north coast — and, did I mention it’s FRIDAY! Time does travel fairly fast it seems, feels like this time a week ago. The World Meteorological Organization in Geneva reported this week 2013 will end up being the seventh warmest on record. WMO secretary-general Michel Jarraud: “All…
Clear, but cold and chilly this way-too-early Monday here on California’s north coast — the weather is pointing in the right direction. Winter’s on the way, or something else, more weird. An environment that’s changing is bringing together unlikely peoples. A few days ago, two people were attacked by polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba, mainly due…
Skies up along California’s north coast this afternoon makes seeing anything celestial a bit dicey, not there’s any reason specifically, other than more space-rock news, and ‘one strange asteroid:’ The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a six-tailed asteroid in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Scientists say they’ve never seen anything…
A faint rain drizzle earlier with near-balmy temperatures for the north coast of California this Thursday afternoon — altogether not unpleasant — but far, far to the west, mega-badass Super Typhoon Haiyan has clobbered the Philippine island of Samar, about 330 miles east of Manila. Supposedly, Haiyan made landfall with winds up to 195 mph,…
High overcast and light ground fog this early Wednesday on California’s north coast and the weekend is now within the mind’s eye sight. As we used to say a shitload of years ago, ‘Keep on truckin’.’ But to where? This morning, the news is jammed with results from yesterday’s off-year elections — more-than-fat-headed Chris Christie…
Clear and cool this early Monday on California’s north coast and the start to a fresh work-week, and a sense of no telling what’s going to happen next. Quote of the weekend — from a new book, “Double Down: Game Change 2012,” about last year’s presidential campaign, and via the Washington Post: Obama meditating on…
Early Sunday and falling back on time. Actually, I’m still an hour ahead, but at my leisure sometime this morning will set life right, clock-wise anyway. The laptop, though, is already set in reality. Day Savings Time is pretty ridiculous. And depending on where you live in the US, the overall affect/effect of DST is…
Another Friday — yippee! Clear this early morning on California’s north coast and in the words of the lady at my bank yesterday: “Tomorrow’s the first of November. What’s up with that?” Yeah, what’s that shit? Time appears to be galloping hard toward some shining point in the way-near future, but what point is that…
