War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Counterpunch to the gosh-awful, bullshit news currently infecting our airwaves, another episode this Saturday of my musical ‘Destination‘ series (last one here), where unusual tunes of personal value create a seemingly alternative auditory diagram to the screaming-loud noises coming off life in 2021 A.D. Eleven years ago at about the turn of the decade, I…
Today a marking of history, not an American shinning moment, but a nasty horror incident without a real reason, which like a shitload of other past US narratives, was lied about and downplayed. And though not a major news story on this particular Friday morning, the reflection on the matter is needed — get rid…
(Illustration found here). Another rocking bit of climate-change science today and it’s not about drought, flooding, or mega-heat waves, but an entity that could make those things even worse — the operation of the Atlantic Ocean’s streaming service is close to collapse and the effect would be a real-big fucking deal. And it’s another one…
(Illustration: Map design: Joshua Project, and was found here). Despite the long-history, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan is back-burner news, and most-likely won’t become front-and-center until the Taliban gain control of the country and slaughter thousands of Afghans, then only in passing. The situation of our retreating from, and out of Afghanistan is a shameful…
In the current stock of things this Monday afternoon — like Greece. Today the CDC put Greece and 15 other countries on a “Level 4: COVID-19 Very High” shit list for Americans to travel due to the surge of the Delta variant, while at the same time, Greece itself is in a weather meltdown. Climate change…
Hot outside this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley, yet although we’re at triple-digit temperatures, the air doesn’t seem as heavy as yesterday (at about the same time and temperature), a sense which could just be a personal, harebrained feeling without any scientific reality to it at all — no matter, still fricking hot!…
Some more climate-related items for this Thursday afternoon as the weekend looms just ahead — another wrecked week of weird. A special day today, sort of hand-in-hand with climate change and the environment — Earth Overshoot Day: Greed pretty-much is the origin story for CO2-fed climate change, and a real, up-close view of the self-centered…
Despite all the juice from a shitload of news, the climate crisis caught my attention again this afternoon, especially with reports that we’re close to tipping points for the worse aspects of global warming, if not already past those positions, which would be a panic-driven mark on life’s calendar. Contending with democracy under fire, a…
Serious news all day — this morning testimony/a review of a terrible-ass insurrection; while this afternoon a slide back in the struggle to get a grip on the COVID-19 virus — the former, all politics and dying, and the latter, horribly also all politics and dying. Republicans and the T-Rump have a lot to answer…
Overcast a bit this Sunday afternoon here in California’s Central Valley, yet still hot as shit — just at the century mark temperature-wise right now, which maybe/hopefully will be the high for the day and it’ll start cooling down. Out in the backyard just a short while ago, and even with the ‘soft’ cloud cover…
