War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Clear sunshine and chilly temperatures this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — beautiful weather for the year. Not so beautiful anywhere else, though. Tip-top news story story this morning comes from Ferguson, MO — grand jury returns without an indictment against Darren Wilson, the cop who shot and killed Michael Brown last August. And…
Clear and chilly outside this early Monday — way-high, wispy clouds, though, will most-likely tone-down sunshine — but this little patch of California’s north coast does feel the sense of real, around-here cold for the first time this year. Temperatures reportedly in the low-40s with a slight, sharp-crisp breeze, the ambience on my back patio…
Overcast and some ground fog early Tuesday on California’s north coast — we’re forecast for maybe-70-percent-chance of rain this morning, and it could happen. Today is the $4 billion Day — in the weird, schizophrenic, and highly-amnesic US of A, the 2014 midterm elections. And we could be really fucked at the end of the…
Chilly-air and overcast on the first Monday in November — every once in awhile this morning, my little section of California’s north coast does get washed with some cloud-filtered sunshine for a few minutes. Maybe if the wind kicks up a bit, so will the shine. Tomorrow is Election Day, but here on the Left…
Overcast and chilly here this early Friday on California’s north coast — on occasion, bright, quick rays of sunshine. Costume holiday — one of our more-weird, and disturbing festivities today, All Saints Eve, or Halloween. A bit from the US Library of Congress: ‘The old beliefs associated with Samhain never died out entirely. The powerful…
Due to this really, really crazy world and all the news pouring from every direction 24/7, I miss a lot of stuff otherwise buried — one for sure is the report Joni Mitchell will release a new box-set-collection of her tunes, due Nov. 17, where she boiled down 17 albums into 53 songs. In a…
Dark-gray overcast this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, and a bit of a chilly wind, too. We’re forecast for rain, 100-percent supposedly for tonight — looks gothic and gloomy right now. Likewise for funereal news this morning, was the death announced last night of Ben Bradlee, the 93-year-old former editor of the Washington Post,…
Raining and a bit windy this early Monday here on California’s north coast — good spitter-spatter last night and through this morning, totals could be half-an-inch, maybe. We’re forecast a wet stretch for at least a week. Seems the rainy season has gotten off to a slower start that last year — according to the…
Last paragraph yesterday from a story by Spencer Ackerman at the Guardian about how NSA people do as they please with government technology: Compounding the potential financial conflicts at the NSA, Buzzfeed News reported that the home of chief of its Signals Intelligence Directorate, Teresa Shea, has a signals-intelligence consulting firm operating out of it.…
Overcast and chilly this early Thursday on California’s north coast — this week is blowing off the doors. And for the whole year, too. Today is special — Dictionary Day, or the birthday of Noah Webster, the guy who made the dictionary the dictionary. The first real, full-blown one was published in 1864. (Illustration found…
