War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Another warm but comfortable late afternoon here this Tuesday in California’s Central Valley — autumn keeps the hope alive of a decent season before winter’s gloom arrives with its habitual, and dangerous ‘tule fog.’ Whether we’ll weather it is another story. A kind of multileveled news day for events and people, mostly revealing the noticeable…
In the near-onslaught of news cycles full of doom and woe this past week, I overlooked a nifty, positive note that brought a chuckle — the prophecy from “Community” of six seasons and a movie apparently will come to pass. One of my most escape-binge sources right now, “Community” in its prime is a heartfelt,…
Continuing nice autumn weather this late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — we’re having the best outdoorsy-days of the year lately and after last summer’s boiling temperatures, it’s a nice respite. However, meteorology like a shitload of other things depends near-completely on location. A horrible for instance — between where I’m located and Florida,…
In my usual news surf this Thursday afternoon, I was immediately struck by some sad, shitty legal news on T-Rump and the Mar-a-Lago document-dump clusterfuck — asshole T-Rump judge has flipped the switch and made an obvious outreach to keep the legal binds tied for the Orange Turd and his lawyers. Per The New York…
(Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Self Portrait Facing Death‘ [June 30, 1972], was originally found here.) Less than a year after Picasso finished the artwork above, he was dead from pulmonary edema and heart failure, so the title is fairly apt. He’d lived a good life for 91 years, though. Distraught by his death, his much-younger wife, and…
(Artwork by Amina Sallam, and found here.) Another fine autumn late afternoon here in California’s Central Valley and a good end to the weekend, weather-wise. In the sense of happy days, though, it’s all pretty much gone to shit. Although outside there are clear skies and sunshine, inside there’s an ominous, unhealthy tint to the…
In a seasonal move, instead of ‘heat domes,’ we’re now into hurricanes, typhoons, and ocean warming with the climate. Three such adventures this Saturday evening, one in the Atlantic, the other in the Caribbean, the last in the far Pacific — destruction and chaos: Two of my favorite climate/weather journalists Bob Henson and Jeff Masters…
Warm but way-comfortable this late-afternoon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — nice kickoff to the weekend. We’re supposed to stay this way for a few more days, which makes shitty-shit somewhat, near-tolerable. And in the discussion of shitty-shit, Republicans today rolled out their supposed agenda, another bilge crack of window-dressing non-particulars from 30 years…
Cool and crisp — if temps in the low 80s are considered brisk — in the outside this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — now just a day shy of the autumnal equinox (6:03 pm PDT tomorrow), the local environment is fully responding in kind with some really comfortable weather. This year is…
Rain clouds but no rain to speak of this late afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley — maybe we’ll get some more of the wet stuff tonight and tomorrow, but so far it’s been a bust for precipitation for the region. Of course, not so everywhere — maybe ask the folks way-wet in Japan,…
