War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
As half the year has glided by seemingly in a flash full of shit news and real-life weirdness, I need to escape the wiles and worries of the nowadays and drown myself in some ‘rain-prominent‘ music, tunes awash/heard in a near-zero precipitation zone. Here in California’s Central Valley — and probably the whole state, including…
In the sweaty Saturday news cycle, shit keeps flowing, though, on the weekends it can slow a bit. Guns and murder continue to play heavily on the wires — the first funerals today for the victims of the Highland Park massacre — and extend to faraway Japan where a homemade shotgun was used yesterday to…
(Illustration of Belgorod submarine, and found here.) Hot and maybe feels a bit humid, too, this late-afternoon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — but make no mistake about the weather, it’s getting more summer by the day. In the flush of the news shit today — and there have been plenty — I came…
A most-major concern for America today is the insanity of the Republican Party. As Jennifer Rubin at The Washington Post put it yesterday: The mainstream media insist on treating the Republican Party as a normal party, routinely declining to press them on their party’s embrace of violence, lies and conspiracy theories. President Biden only gingerly…
Across the wide pond this Thursday morning a musical interlude in the sound of a dipshit leaving. Boris Johnson resigned as UK prime minister, but in a slow-stepped process that will supposedly not take place for months — Johnson will stay on until a successor is named — and he’s an idiot with an idiot’s…
In the ever-continuing slow-walking display of justice, the announcement today of another T-Rump lawyer to testify before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection/riot/coup just might be the bridge to getting an indictment against the T-Rump, and then maybe a jail cell for the asshole. One knows hope springs eternal — except with Merrick…
A nice warm to the air this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley, and it just might be the last day for a while for pleasant temperatures — reportedly heat on the way with maybe triple-digits temps by the weekend. The last few days seemingly a respite from the dreaded summer burndown, but nothing…
(Salvador Dali’s ‘Fire, Fire, Fire,’ lithograph, c.1971, and found here.) Hot, but cooled by a decent breeze this late-afternoon holiday Monday here in California’s Central Valley — the Fourth of July, America’s supposed birthday. Too much shit going on for the normal red-white-and-blue bullshit — this country is in such a predicament right now this…
Cool and nice this late-afternoon Sunday — the in-between day of the holiday weekend — here in California’s Central Valley as we await the sounds of fireworks exploding in the minds of our dog and cat population, and probably other animal types, too, but I’m only familiar with them. Anyway, slow news day, and came…
UPDATE Below Horrible, heart-breaking news this Saturday morning — one of my most-personal favorite bloggers has died. Known to me only as ‘Big Bad Bald Bastard,’ who conveyed a wondrous humane view of not only the whole, wide, wide world, but also a love-of-life living in Yonkers, New York — a combo sweetly found in…
