War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Cold and foggy this late-afternoon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — although there’s still some daylight flickering, it’s a gloomy, dark-shadowed end to another work week in this festered era of non-seasonal melancholy. Seemingly, this year’s tule fog version is worse, thicker, and deeply damp — join the festivities. This is my first post…
(Illustration out front: Edvard Munch‘s ‘The Scream,’ lithograph version, found here.) This early-evening Wednesday is still too premature to adequately address the absolute horror shock from this morning. I turned out the lights last night before going to bed, even after re-checking CNN for further election update results (as a stress-reducer of sorts, I’d been watching “Castle”…
(Image: ‘Election Day Brawl,’ by Woody Guthrie, and found here.) Overcast and cool this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley. In this new back to the old standard time of darkness coming too quickly in the PM is depressing enough. Finally, that day has come — Election Day 2024! And so far, with all…
Sunshine and clear-blue skies just past noon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley. Nice weather for an insane presidential election — way-beyond grasping crazy how close this race is even in the presence of someone that’s not only a deplorable, asshole piece of shit, but also freaking nuttier-than-a-fruitcake and freaking slobbering crazy — and it…
Our news cycle nowadays is shit-fire way-depressing, overflowing with outlandish circumstances and it seems to be getting worse. Sad a humongous wad of people are suffering, from natural disasters to man-made influenced catastrophes — a lot of hard work to keep sane in the midst of it all. Actually, a pile of smoldering shit. And…
Some sense of a feeling. So far, this particular year has been another case of the ‘fours.’ Apparently, from what I can gather from within myself as I age (76 next month), the years of my life ending in ‘4‘ have had some special, striking significance — except 1954, as I was too young to…
Another summer-day heated attempt in October this near-noon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — a big difference in the warmth index, though, is simple: It’s autumn! Add an index of simplicity, too, with great economic news this morning with a robust jobs report, giving a bounce to Kamala Harris and an elbow in the…
Bright sunshine and gathering heat just past the noon hour Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — we’re in for a heat spell quickly coming up as the middle of the week is forecast for triple-digit temperatures. As I’ve whined before: Won’t summer just end? And in a flash, won’t the T-Rump end? In the…
Saturday evening in California’s Central Valley — shit doesn’t have a weekend off in our nowadays. Some news-angled tidbits: Kamala Harris is ready for a second debate with the T-Rump (NBC News): Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign on Saturday said it would accept an invitation to participate in a second debate with former President Donald…
In honor of the horrifying memory from 23 years ago. However, outlandish unabashed asshole seeps in from last night’s debate disaster (h/t image via Digby): A somewhat perfect picture of the T-Rump, uninterested in the solemn remembrance of those killed in the Sept.11, 2001, attacks against the Twin Towers, the beginning of a horror run…
