War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Here we are Wednesday, the morning after the night of freak. Although I’d been trying to not become too optimistic the last few weeks with the whole election endeavor maybe looking like a landslide or even a wondrous ‘blue tsuanmi,’ but was blindsided early last evening by a ‘red swarm’ of nationwide assholes. A huge…
Hot this Monday afternoon in California’s Central Valley. Too much shit going on for much more than some sounds for the times — this near-about my anthem this past year: Coupled with this: And this one for some reason I’ve grown to love hearing over and over again (another musical h/t to Susie). I’d never…
A flashback this morning (via Rolling Stone): Linkin Park issued a cease and desist against Donald Trump after the president’s team used their music without permission in a campaign video posted on Twitter Saturday. The tweet that embedded the two-minute video — posted by White House social media director Dan Scavino and retweeted by Trump…
Hot but manageable this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — temps have been high-90s this week, but by the weekend, supposedly back into the unbearable triple digits. Heat in the summer time… In a news respite from the unsurprising coronavirus surge (yet still scary as shit), the worsening nasty antics of the T-Rump,…
A black plague of news — Run: ‘Have I got a long way to run?‘ (Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Les Deux Saltimbanques: l’Arlequin et Sa Compagne,’ found here).
Earthquake just a few minutes ago, and according to the USGS, the shaker, located south of Lone Pine, California, registered a 5.8 on the Richter Scale. I was lying on my bed surfing the InterWebs on my iPad when I felt a couple of ‘ripples,’ a physical impossibility without some external, weird help, and I…
In the mishmash of shit flowing through the airwaves nowadays, some words of wisdom from 17-year-old climate-change crusader, Greta Thunberg, who ignites the slender, but strong-adjoining thread between the coronavirus pandemic and the way-crisis in earth’s environment: Image found here. She speaks reality in an interview this morning via the Guardian: Greta Thunberg has said…
An open-ugly side of hiring nasty, dip-shits: A few details via The Hill this afternoon: “The president makes hiring decisions based on the fact that he likes to have countervailing viewpoints,” McEnany told reporters during a press briefing. McEnany said she spoke to Trump specifically about his decision to hire John Bolton, his former national…
Most-excellent view of positions in the chain and empathy (great h/t Miss Cellania): A little together in diversity as shown by this study on integration in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2002 (Washington Post this morning): ‘When the share of minorities grew in schools by 10 percentage points during the formative elementary and middle-school years, white…
Breezy and not all-that-warm this late-afternoon Friday here in California’s Central Valley. Compared to yesterday (101-degrees), today has been a snap — it’s 77 right now and with cool gusts the ambiance is near-comfortable. Another irregular/regular post of Leroy and I strolling along Rascal Bike Path here in Merced. Although we walk every day, only…
