War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Blue skies and bright sunshine this near-noon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley — looking good so far this week in advance of some rain late toward the weekend. We’ll take it as it plays. Also taking the play is Joe Biden and his team going after the crazy spewing non-stop from the nasty piehole…
Another Eve is in the works, and this one awaits the hot rock possibility of a horrid immediate future. Foggy and correspondingly damp this early evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — hours away from a new year already acting almost like a fevered cartoon. After a most-wonderful visit last week with family up…
In a year of note-worthy union accomplishments across a wide variety of occupations from show biz to the auto industry, now it’s the media’s turn to stand in the labor spotlight — today about 750 editorial employees of The Washington Post are staging a one-day (24-hour) writers’ strike. The Post Guild union says management is…
(Artwork: Leonid Pasternak‘s ‘The Passion of Creation,’ found here.) Originative writing is an art form for the mentally disturbed. An actuality proven by history and reality. Yet nowadays there are thousands, literally hundreds of thousands of writers out ‘there‘ (beyond my location, into the murky depths of everywhere, all at once, all the time), which…
Overcast with a chilly breeze this early-evening Monday here in California’s Central Valley — a quick turnaround from the heat, a nice break. Not on a break are journalists covering the horror of war now in Israel and the Gaza Strip — even close calls: Nutshell after the scary ‘fuck‘ moment — per The Hill:…
In this age of all-encompassing media, there are still assholes and an entire industry of being neutral and above the fray of politics — moreover, this is the age of the T-Rump and a Republica party pure crazed by lying bluster. This afternoon, Joe Biden attended church services at St. Joseph on the Brandywine near…
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…
Hot and feeling hot this late-afteroon Monday here in California’s Central Valley — just another drop in the bucket of weather going abnormal on the normal (for climate change). I came across the story when it happened last week, and spied this tweet this afternoon as a remembrance: As a former journalist and a newsroom…
Oddest set of criminal acts in the last little while. (Image from the Merced Police Department, and found here.) In scrolling my afternoon news routine, I by accident spied a crime story from my local newspaper. Apparently, the photo above is of a man attempting to pass as a woman in the course of an…
Clear, bright sunshine and coolish temperatures in the shade this noon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — does feel way-warm in the sun, however. Just another pre-summer, glorious day to enjoy before it’s too late. Meanwhile far to the east in New Hampshire this morning, the supposedly number-one not-Trump Republican aspirant for president revealed…
