War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Weather and climate hit the top spot for news this Wednesday morning as winter storms coast-to-coast are wreaking havoc across the board — here in California’s Central Valley we’re in the middle of heavy rains and high winds. Looks to be the theme for the next three/four days. And is epic — via The Washington…
America is in a kind of fix. President Joe Biden has been in office less than a week and the horrible memories of the awful days of the T-Rump are being slowly whitewashed away by a loud blare of a whining minority while the biggest chunk of Americans want the former president convicted and made…
One scary COVID-19 phenomenon is whenever there’s a perceived downward curve on infections/hospitalizations/deaths our whole shit melts away and we breathe a sigh of relief, reopen closed societies and try to regain a sense of normalcy, but seemingly always too soon. Although the numbers have dropped, they’re still shitty (John Hopkins University): As of this…
A major portal for the public into any White House is through the press briefing/conference, they’re either chaotic bullshit or reassuring to facts and reality. One really refreshing aspect of Joe Biden’s presidency so far is the question-and-answer sessions with Biden’s White House press secretary, Jen Psaki. In her very-first appearance before reporters last Thursday,…
One of the top-notch items on President Joe Biden’s agenda is a return full-steam to addressing climate change, which under T-Rump was not just put on a back burner, but tossed-off the stove completely. In November, Biden named John Kerry to head the assault, making the move even more serious by creating for Kerry a…
UPDATE This occurred after I posted last evening: Now back to the show… Along with Joe and Jill Biden taking-up residence in the White House, also for the first time in four years — dogs. The Bidens have two German shepherds, Champ and Major, but I couldn’t find any news about them arriving at the…
(Illustration: Woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, ‘The Great Wave,’ found here). In human behavior it seems, accepting belief in a nut-job conspiracy theory and handling COVID-19 misinformation are two distinct dumb-ass positions. This for sure has been an era of conspiracy theories, pop-up delusions and deceptions galore, but with the virus it…
A cover of an old, old song about horseshit left in shit-stalls: Artwork depicting a lot of garbage-scattered ground, not only just one particular place, but throughout everything a president would touch, because we know, anything T-Rump touches dies — the image above could also represent the entire federal goverment and all its appendages. After…
A kind of Respite Friday — drizzling rain on-and-off all day here on my little speck in California’s Central Valley. Maybe more like a breathing-space day with the explosion of events already in just three weeks of a new year, which was supposed to be at least fractionally better than 2020. The news cycle appears…
Yesterday was one of those watershed-type days. Personally, I received an excellent follow-up medical review at UC Davis off my cancer surgery more than two years ago (next exam in a year), and nationally, Joe Biden became POTUS. The latter also a big thumbs-up in the health category. And this morning, a spring in the…
