War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Beyond the knotty dung-drops happening right now — another shooting, closing arguments in the Derek Chauvin murder trial, Republicans whining about Maxine Waters talking truth, a drone flight on Mars, and so forth — a major event in the battle against climate change happens this week when the world is supposed to come together to…
Once again, another intermission from the frightfully tedious news cycles screaming ugly scenarios ad infinitum seemingly crafted by Rod Serling with a collaboration effort from Kurt Vonnegut. However, no one, really, could have thought this shit up, though, a load of people have tried, and got it wrong. This recess from that blare is a…
In the wake of COVID surging in the US, way-rightwing Republicans starting a white supremacist caucus, and mass shootings occurring all-the-time all over, there’s news the T-Rump might have lost some weight and maybe planning to run for president again in 2024. I ask you, what’s the shittiest scenario there, after the entire dying part?…
America woke up this morning to another freaking mass shooting — this one late last night in Indiana (CBS): A 19-year-old gunman opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis late Thursday night, killing eight people before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said. Police identified the suspect as Brandon Scott Hole, a former FedEx…
One really-big major problem in securing a handle on the COVID pandemic is asshole Republicans, as way-witnessed this morning in a one-sided debate between slipknot, nit-twit Gym Jordan and Anthony Fauci during testimony at a House Oversight coronavirus subcommittee hearing, and the shit didn’t end well. Jordan is emblematic of the self-ignorant cruelty of Republicans,…
Beyond the political idiocy of Republicans, today one who doesn’t understand satire, and for a couple of weeks another who’s been upgraded from just fucked to royally fucked to a subject matter really out-distancing all of our so-called problems right now, which is climate change, really a climate crisis. A runaway fright train barreling down…
Finally off the shit list — today Merced County where I live skipped up a notch from the worse in California. From the Merced Sun-Star this morning: Merced County officials say they received good news from the state on Wednesday, as they were given permission to move into the red tier for reopening the economy.…
(Illustration: ‘Landscape of Change,’ waterolor by Jill Pelto, and found here). Along with COVID killing people all across the planet (according to John Hopikins University, as of this afternoon, 563,375 Americans have died, 2,951,968 worldwide), the pandemic will cause problems well into the future, which will have treacherous effects on humankind’s ability to function in…
Last night, residents of South Florida on the Atlantic coast got a thrill, and probably a quick scare across the skies above them (per NPR): And from another angle: Scrolling around the InterWebs this morning, I couldn’t get any confirmation the object was the projected asteroid scheuled to pass earth last night — from EarthSky…
Another school shooting today and with gun action again a part of American folklore, the perplexity of keeping account of the action is understandable: First, and unrelated this afternoon, a school shooting in Knoxville, Tenn. (ABC News): Police faced gunfire as they responded to reports of a possible gunman at a Tennessee high school Monday,…
