War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration: ‘A Mild Case of Cognitive Dissonance,’ ink on canvas, by Wilf Tilley, and found here). As early-evening Thursday fashions itself here in California’s Central Valley, the country is becoming more and more a problem bin for weird-ass troubles — the lastest is how a huge chunk of Americans are suffering from perceptions of contradictory…
As of late, my posts in the afternoon seem to have more climate change news than other horror shit, from over-heating oceans to super-hot months to super-hot years, and yesterday another sweltering weather report, this one from down Argentina-way (Gizmodo): Ground temperatures climbed above 129 degrees Fahrenheit (54 degrees Celsius) in parts of Argentina this…
Life is getting a bit on the mental-breakdown side of the fencepost: Details via Yahoo News this morning: An overwhelming majority of Americans believe the U.S. is in the grips of a full-blown mental health crisis, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll. Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought a rise…
Drizzling still this early-evening Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley, after a day full of deep-overcast skies and continuous threat of hard rain — reportedly, maybe some sunshine tomorrow before another storm slated for next week, and the new year. In the air, climate disaster seems close at hand. And art mirrors reality — listen…
Insane our current place in history although a time of great knowledge — a dangerous, highly-infectious disease is surging around the world and, for reasons beyond real understanding, is especially gushing here in the US (CNN this afternoon): ‘They come as doctors expect the holiday coronavirus surge, driven by the highly contagious Omicron variant, to…
In this time of madness, a cadence of the measure (h/t Miss Cellania): (Illustration found here). A decent foible of the horrid nowadays is showing empathy (without the screaming and crying) — there’s a lot of shit out there happening to folks all around us, from the pandemic to politics (MAGA relatives) to severe weather.…
Dense, chilly fog here mid-day Sunday in California’s Central Valley, a full-scale return to our ‘tule fog‘ bullshit once again after some rain last week, with the version this morning a thick, near-opaque gray in absolutely-zero wind — zilch in any kind of movement. A simile in the ugly Joe ‘MonsterMash’ Manchin — : In…
Pandemic agitation and horror continue as it appears the US, and most likely the world, will feel a COVID-19 surge this winter (sooner than later) and despite all the vaccines you’d need/want being readily available in this country, the situation is scary in its foolishness. As of this Wednesday evening and according to Johns Hopkins…
America is of two camps, one humane and thoughtful, the other, cruel and insane. In the dark shadow of the vicious future of murder and firearm control created by the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal, the House earlier today passed Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion social safety net expansion legislation (the BBB — Build Back Better bill), but…
As the world weathers the accelerating impacts of climate change, attendees to COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, finally reached an agreement, though, the entire affair could be another “blah, blah, blah” episode. Nutshell via The Washington Post this afternoon: Saturday’s agreement, however, does not achieve the most ambitious goal of the 2015 Paris accord — to…
