War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
A sunny and breezy early-evening Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley. Big, white clouds, too, and a cool-ish temperature (70-degrees right now) and an unfamiliar feel to the air — we had some fairly-heavy hail yesterday afternoon, and looked like rain this morning. Blogging outside again with a pix of the scene. I’m retired, so…
Overcast and damp this early-evening Monday here in California’s Central Valley. Humid, too, after raining on-and-off nearly all day. Better than the heat and we need the rain. Major news of the day, so far, comes of course from the T-Rump — per The Washington Post this evening: President Trump announced Monday that he is…
Cloudy, humid and a bit of sprinkles this early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley. Another end to a two-day event, which not too long ago was called the ‘weekend,’ but now a week is measured just by days not seeming to end. Idiotic, insane character — the T-Rump tweeted this last night: Today, Bill…
Hot and still Saturday here in California’s Central Valley. Another adventure of walking my daughter’s dog, Leroy, along a small portion of the Rascal Bike Path here in Merced, which during the hike this morning was seemingly way-cooler and a bit overcast. An ambiance easily burned away upon our return leg, always quicker, and hotter.…
Occasional sunshine near mid-day Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley. Cloudy most of the morning, earlier even looked like rain for awhile, but appears the afternoon will sunny and warm, as normal. Weather-wise, of course, not much normal about the nowadays. Top-of-the-news today was in the US Senate where occurred a medical/scientific push-back of the…
Dog walks again on the Rascal Bike Path here in Merced — now late-afternoon Sunday in California’s Central Valley, fairly-warm with not much wind. Every morning, if I can work it, I take my daughter’s basset hound/greyhound mix, Leroy, on walks via the Rascal, some longer than others, but our sorties have also become a…
Ghastly but accurate (via Raw Story): Ending caught me by surprise — Joe? The video is from the UK — it works, though. And I spied the clip yesterday, but this morning I came across a must-read companion piece to it from the June issue of Rolling Stone by Tim Dickinson, a detailed survey of…
We’re in an era of ‘you can’t make this shit up,’ shit: Background via the Guardian‘s live blog this morning: The Trump Death Clock, the real-time tracker that seeks to put a figure on the number of Americans who have died needlessly during the pandemic as a result of White House inaction, has just gone…
(h/t Miss Cellania). A couple of items weirder than normal, and ghastly, too. Our life scenario seems to be edging in a general direction for a horrible situation-event to explode (even worse than right now), as per this account from The Washington Post this afternoon: The White House is seeking revisions to a document drafted…
Early-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley, and the heat is already heating. A breeze does keep it down a bit, but only so much can be done. In the backyard again, and still nice in the shade — getting warm, though. (External Station — even mystic bamboo in the faded background). One conclusive result…
