War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Sunshine and breezy warm this early-evening Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — some light drizzle this morning, then a nice, easy day followed. We are definitely easing into autumn. Beyond the news of nowadays (shitty as it is), there’s a gem of an item from long, long ago — the assassination of JFK and…
Paul McCartney uncovered some photos he’d taken long, long ago: Although this bit of news might be old hat already (it was first revealed in January this year), McCartney’s photographs will be on display at London’s National Portrait Gallery starting at the end of this month. Reportedly, he took the pictures between December 1963 and…
An aside this afternoon on more T-Rump era shit, this time with the Secret Service — a new non-fiction book, “Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service,” by Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, due out next week, actually covers the protective-agency story back to JFK, the most-recent times, however, are closer in…
Today 57 years ago: (Illustration found here). Quickly-escalating moments in media time: Just about everyone who was alive then knows where they were when they heard the news. How they came to hear — decades before the Internet stitched up the world so that news moves at the speed of light — is itself a…
