War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Clear, blue skies and splashy sunshine here in California’s Central Valley this near-noon Friday. We’re ending the work week on another fine, fall day. Wonderful weather, especially in comparison right now to western New York with a historic snowfall producing near zero visibility, and creating a sense of environmental guilt with our blue skies and…
In the wake of the wondrous Nancy Pelosi’s press conference this morning, the future of American democracy was quickly put on display — Republicans with a tiny majority in the House will bypass governing and concentrate on pure, obvious bullshit. BS sprouted by horribly-lying hypocrisy: BS via so-called ‘whistleblowers‘ — which Charles P. Pierce at…
Today week will mark one of the biggest events in recent memory — the usual, ‘normal‘ midterm election that’s anything but ‘normal.’ In fact, it’s a major abnormal. Along with all kinds of life particulars on the line — abortion, Social Security, Medicare, and election integrity, to name just a way-few — but democracy itself…
(Illustration: ‘Significant Event Note: Oct 27 1980,’ gouache on paper, by Jimmy Ernst, and found here.) Today three weeks from now a major event, more than what the artwork above suggests as ‘significant‘ as we work the ballot box down to the slightest degree — the future of America is held sway in the results.…
Nice, and maybe a bit chilly this near-noon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley with a cool breeze tempering the warmish sunshine — another autumn day to the growing roster before crisp becomes cold. Worse maybe still is how fast 2022 has burned through the calendar. In a sense, hard to believe it’s quickly approaching…
(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…
Hot as shit outside this near-noon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — we’re forecast for boiling-scalding temperatures through the middle of the month at least, with 115 degrees predicted for this coming Tuesday. In the heat of cruel idiocy: Beyond the idiots lies the lying. In this world of heavy-duty ‘alternative facts‘ of T-Rump…
Beyond the norm in hot this late-afternoon Saturday in California’s Central Valley — right now it’s 108 (with a ‘feels like’ factor of 110 degrees), which is maybe tempered just a bit by a soft wind. I don’t think so — ‘soft‘ is way-too ‘soft‘ a word to describe the outside of my air-conditioned apartment.…
Hot and heavy this near-noon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — although one degree short of triple figures, the ‘feels like‘ gauge on my local weather site cites 102-degrees, which when I was outside a just a short while ago, is an understatement. We’re in a multi-day, statewide/region-wide ‘heat dome’ experience where baking-hot is…
A few degrees under 100 just about mid-day Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley — the fevered-heat wave starts this afternoon, though, officially the baking isn’t supposed to begin until tomorrow. A lot of the time reality is a day early. And a long-ago-like tomorrow, it’s been 50 years since the Watergate era — the…
