War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Another gorgeous early morning up here on California’s northern coast with stars glittering the sky and the waning moon still pulsating with light — supposed to be another warm day, the high expected to be ’72,’ which for us is like 102 elsewhere. Across the spectrum, though, life is a bitch, or whatever. President Obama…
Full fog this morning on California’s north coast, wet, moist and dense — real quiet, too, and seemingly surface-wise, so intensely peaceful. Beyond this little space, however, the rest of the planet seems to have gone coo-coo with a capital K. Including a different form of ugly protest boiling across the Arab world, this time…
(Illustration found here). All things on this planet have just three parts: A beginning, a middle, and an end. No matter the subject, the material, or the biological make-up, the life of all things have this order of narrative, from plants, to animals, and to human peoples — no one escapes this hard-set plot, whether…
Obvious the strange, though, deviations are not that unfamiliar. In the wake last week of some nefarious-images of face eating and kitten strangling, the entire human system appears to be heading off into a bad direction in which there’s no happy ending. As people we tend to see tomorrow, or the future, in a sense…
Hard to fathom it’s not only another Monday morning, but another brand-new month — Santa Claus is way back down the road — and the planet keeps creeping forward into the gloom. Weekends are a bit slower than weekdays, but those languid 48 hours seem to flash past like a bullet. Beyond the lottery madness…
People in the right-turn lane in the US South are wound up tighter than dick’s hatband: “We pray that you will lift him up and… make it known before this nation this is the man that you have for this country,” the man said, before adding that the right person is “not someone who wants…
“The radar is picking up a line of thundershowers which extends from nine miles NNE of Sicorgus, New Jersey, along a line and six miles either side of the line to a point five miles SSW of Fonduloch. However, the radar is also picking up a squadron of Russian ICBMs…so I wouldn’t sweat the thundershowers.”…
Monday morning, and getting close to the end of another month — time flies when all kinds of shit are hitting the fan. Including this horror show in Florida — and I don’t mean the upcoming GOP primary: “As it was happening on the northbound side, it was happening on the southbound side as well,”…
(Illustration found here). This morning just about everything I read/look at is pure shit. If the Republicans have one more debate I might blow chunks all over my laptop — the blow-hole event last night was enough to make anyone sick to their inner-most bowels with such empty, vain-glory bluster that anyone not of this…
On Saturday, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep, the pump price still at $3.83 a gallon for regular here on California’s northern coast. Meanwhile, with all the frantic activity amongst various warships in the Strait of Hormuz, the US average of gas at the pump was up 7 cents in…