War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Sunshine in a near-cloudless sky this late-afternoon Friday here in California’s Central Valley. And continuing so, the T-Rump indictment in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case is still exploding across the InterWebs. There’s no Friday news dump that could upset the rolling on-it-track train of T-Rump finally getting some kind of justice for 50 years of…
Today is the first day of Spring 2023, and also the 20th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion. (Illustration: US Marines in northern Kuwait assembling to invade Iraq; photograph found here.) How those two events combine is anyone’s guess. On March 20, 2003, the US did a bad, bad thing. And despite a shitload of people…
Overcast and warm this late afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central valley — rain expected tomorrow, or maybe even tonight, but supposedly (hopefully) not as disastrous as in the immediate past. Less than a week, reportedly, and we’re back to sunshine again. Probably the big story today occurred this morning — and I’m sure you’ve…
Next Monday is the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq — an international day of infamy: (Image: ‘The Three Amigos‘ — Dick Cheney, GW Bush, Don Rumsfeld, oozing manliness on a road outside GW’s no-cattle ranch in Crawford, Texas — and found here.) Time is a strange vehicle of travel as it seems…
In a noted sense of uselessness and without a clue on how to govern, Republicans’ complete show is on cultural spark points, which in reality most Americans care about and support. GOPers are way-notorious for voting against their own interest. They’d rather ‘own the libs‘ than better their own lives. Talk about self-centered dumb-asses. Nowadays,…
Rain and cold wind this early-evening Thursday here in California’s Central Valley as we engage in the front edge of a supposedly massive storm cruising our way out of the south Pacific — an ‘atmospheric river,’ or ‘Pineapple express,’ will reportedly crash into So Cal later tonight and tomorrow soaking the region. Including us here…
Another round in the Fox News lying escapade which has now spanned decades. In a rare action today, Joe Biden’s administration put a hard knock on Tucker Carlson and the obvious repugnant lies on the Jan. 6 insurrection — White House spokesperson Andrew Bates late this afternoon (CNN): “We agree with the chief of the…
Rain and cold wind this early-evening Monday here in California’s Central Valley — we are still in the throes of our second big winter storm in less than two months of the new year as snow in LA is not a movie about cocaine in Hollywood. We’re forecast for maybe some sunshine toward the end…
Sunny and cold this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — nearly-exact the opposite of our forecast. We were supposed to at least have some rain by now, and for a while, it looked like it would happen, and then seemingly, and suddenly, sunshine reappeared (it’d been gorgeous in the morning) and the day…
In further ado of Randy’s delightful visual essay, via Dictionary.com: ‘Alternative facts have been called many things: falsehoods, untruths, delusions. A fact is something that actually exists—what we would call “reality” or “truth.” An alternative is one of the choices in a set of given options; typically the options are opposites of each other. So…
