War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Bright sunshine and getting-warm temperatures just past the noon hour Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — the summer routine still playing out early in heat and color. In keeping with the subject line from yesterday’s post on my first encounter with the wondrous weed long, long ago and far, far away, Joe Biden this…
Today 50 years ago was also a Wednesday. In those days I was a senior at the University of Florida and was less than a month away from graduating. Although I had the GI Bill for financial assistance, during the last two years of college I worked part-time at the Sears, Roebuck store there in…
Crystal-clear skies empowering still-brighter sunshine this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley. Off the normal topics of shitty T-Rump-related news — his ‘hush money‘ criminal trial numbed the senses today again in NYC; he explained to Time magazine just how horrid and undemocratic a second term of his would actually be; among a filthy…
Terrifying shit for a noonish Friday — news dump literally. A couple of items off the T-Rump’s fourth day in New York on that ‘hush money‘/financial campaign-fraud case, one a terrifying outside-the-courtroom incident: Strange, more-than-meets-the-eye news clip. Some muted details: Eyewitness News talked to a witness who said the man was holding papers in Collect…
Raining on and off, hard-and-easy this early-evening Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — apparently we’re picking some of the remnants/final gasps of the big splasher the last few days from the LA area, plus reportedly there’s a low-pressure system swimming across the valley, dumping snow in the mountains/foothills, and dropping somewhat heavy precipitation on…
Deeply-overcast and humid this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley as we await a wet, wild weather front coming our way — earlier today the fabled “pineapple express” surging out from warm Hawaiian waters dropped into/onto coastal areas and it’s only matter of time. Reportedly, the valley will be getting rain and wind off…
(Image/illustration found here.) Sunshine and seemingly not-so-chilled wind this Wednesday afternoon here in California’s Central Valley — a respite from the cold rain and fog we’ve been experiencing the last month of so. Despite the calendar time gap, I’m ready/wanting some heat. And in connection with the word, ‘heat,’ today another piece-of-shit climate-change news, and…
A wet-gray and cold late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley. Although kind of nasty outside, it’s nothing compared to a giant chunk of the US right now, from super-freezing snow storms in the midwest to tornadoes in the south — the weather’s shitty all over. Americans seem aware that despite the winter conditions, climate…
UPDATE: Overnight problems — nothing serious, surgery re-scheduled for next month. Eye surgery again tomorrow at the Fresno VA so the posting here will be slim to none the next few days. This is part two of two parts — right eye in November, left tomorrow — in a cataract surgical procedure. It’s a same-day…
Sunshine and a bit of warmth here this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley. One of the better, nicer days in the last couple of weeks — a bit of rain along with the seasonal return of the valley’s winter plague, ‘tule fog,‘ has made most of this month’s weather a bit on the…
