War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Early alert per The New York Times tonight: A grand jury in Atlanta handed up an indictment late Monday in a Georgia prosecutor’s investigation into efforts by Donald J. Trump and some of his key allies to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. But its details — including who is named in the indictment and…
Asshole morons, obvious First Amendment violations in the biggest journalism story of the year, and death by anxiety — nothing heavy, plus creating another example of the Streisand effect. (Illustration found here.) I read about the asshole raid by police in Marion, Kansas, on Friday, and it looked like a shitstorm about to strike as…
Indeed Saturday night’s a good time for violence against democracy: Political consultant Trygve Olson, and senior advisor with The Lincoln Project, in an interview published last week at Salon, notes the violence abundant with T-Rump and the Republican brand: I have found that universally, autocratic actors – and Trump is one – use six tactics…
As we move further and further into the 2024 campaign, the more gross the politics become — Republicans suck. And apparently, the worse of the worse is Ron DeSantis-unsanitary: ‘He did it again. Gross Ron Desantis has a disgusting habit of wiping his nose right before shaking someone’s hand or touching a part of their…
Overcast with an occasional sliver of sunshine this noon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — although still quite warm and humid, the heat is on a downward slant today, which makes summer in these parts much more bearable. Heat nowadays is in a localized perspective. In the guise of living history, the wildfires now…
Warm and getting hotter this noon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — heat is now part of the game Even the T-Rump is feeling the heat, the criminal heat (The Daily Beast): Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty (again) on Thursday, this time to new charges brought against him in his classified documents…
A pleasant, not-bad late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — we’re starting a cool-down period for the next few days, dropping into maybe the high 80s tomorrow. Weather can be nice, but the old restaurant success adage comes to mind: Location, location, location. And for the right-wing MAGA crowd, the location is actually violence…
Hot already just past the noon hour this Monday here in California’s Central Valley — although the air carries a heavy feel to it as we near triple digits (101 the expected high today), it’s still below intolerable levels. Cool heat is maybe the ticket out of this heat-domed mess — only temporary as the…
In the course of current events, T-Rump really, really sucks. He has to be one of the worse — if not the actual worse — human beings who’s ever lived. One wonders at the low-form definition of what the T-Rump amplifies: The success of Donald Trump, an asshole who became president, created a fallacy: Americans…
Warm with a hot breeze this noon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — we’re starting a small run of triple-digit temperatures for a few days (high of 105 forecast for today), but we’re still not boiling like Arizona. In fact, we might be feeling cooler compared to last year for some odd reason, which…
