War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
T-Rump’s mug shot from August 2023, after being indicted in Atlanta for racketeering and related charges. Earlier today, I visited my local VA clinic to get some lab work done, and after taking my seat in the lobby, joining several other vets in various levels of decay, I noticed the shit-posting of our current president…
Happy fourth, Miss Liberty! In the celebration of a celebration, it’s about the country, not T-Rump’s insatiable, cruel scam of our history: Tom Sullivan today at Digby’s place nutshelled it right-spot on — no way could I record it any better: Our modern mad king has bulldozed the East Wing. He has wrecked the Reflecting…
Screaming into madness seems currently spot on — via the Guardian in January 2019: The Scream was created by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893 but it has become a masterpiece – the masterpiece – for our time. There are comparably “iconic” works of art – the Mona Lisa, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers – but…
A new beginning, of sorts, this Tuesday morning for the old blog. In the space of time, my longtime (and one-and-only) IT guy, Eric Metze, gave me a surprise earlier today, and a thrilling and happy moment, when he e-mailed about an update he’d conducted on Compatible Creatures, propelling the site into the nowadays. Eric knows his…
Projection: Definition/projection: Projection is one example of unconscious psychological processes called defense mechanisms. Some people find it hard to accept criticism or believe information that they wish were not true. So they seek – and then provide – another explanation for the difference between what’s happening in the world and what’s happening in their minds.…
In another quick, hard rebuke, Radiohead has told DHS to stop using their song, “Let Down,” in pro-ICE video ads, because it sucks, and besides, there’s no way in shit the band would have given the OK to use it. Via Variety this morning: Radiohead has issued a joint band statement decrying the use of the…
In advance of T-Rump’s state of failure speech tomorrow night: (Ben Jennings’ cartoon found at the Guardian). History reveals even the most shitty of US presidents honored America — Michael Tomasky at The New Republic this morning: We cannot say remotely the same of Donald Trump. He is largely and proudly ignorant of those traditions;…
Bright, late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — reportedly 71 degrees; I was just outside (in the small, apartment-sized backyard doing a bowl) and the air felt barely-chilled by quiet wisps of a near-about warmish breeze. Preview maybe of a coming scorching-ass summer. Yet for the right now and being a bit selfish, it’s…
Bright, sunshine-filled late-afternoon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — coupled with some pleasant temperatures about as good as it gets around here for a winter’s day. However, coming this holiday weekend is a forecast of a strong turnabout — seasonal shit of rain, thunderstorms and maybe snow for the nearby Sierra Nevada mountain range…
Musing on writing as a form: A flashback post, and igniting were thoughts generated on the mechanics of writing, as for me, personally. And despite a way-shitload of subject matter, could sometimes feel no real emotional plea to sit at my laptop and formulate the appropriate words. In some way, the literary desire has been…
