War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
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…
Fog still hanging early Wednesday afternoon here on California’s north coast — another autumn sequence on the road to wintertime. And with the fog, there was no “blood moon” for us this pre-dawn morning — not so elsewhere, depending on location, the phenomenon was “very spectacular.” But online, the choice location: Except on the Internet,…
Near-crystal clear this early Thursday on California’s north coast, bright sunshine tempered by a chilled breeze — scheduled for the mid-70s today, maybe even 80 tomorrow. Odd, a frost advisory just a few miles inland. Still big news out yonder is the oddly-shaped collapse of the US Secret Service — a way-simple tale told on…
Monday morning overcast and chilly on California’s north coast — sunshine later on is in the forecast. Maybe, maybe not. In the ugly business of news gathering, this was historically sad: Former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee is in hospice care after his health has declined over the past two months, said his wife, Sally Quinn.…
Dark-thirty still this Sunday morning on California’s north coast — fog dwells deep around streetlights, and life is way-freaking quiet. Time really flows away writing a post for my blog here — right now it’s a little after six o’clock, probably near an hour away from first light, and most-likely will be eight, or nine…
Foggy and gray this early Saturday on California’s north coast, and the beat goes on. In the ugly mists of current events — odd, violent and bad — flooding a weekend/news cycle-dump, I was awash this morning with a fresh, pleasantly-nice, tingly sensation (way-rare nowadays) upon discovery today is the birthday of one my all-time,…
Overcast still, but no rain showers, though, dark as shit in the early afternoon. Modern life sometimes appears asshole-contradictory — Cheetah this: A study found that the violence displayed by chimpanzees was not caused by human disturbances, but rather the behavior is innate to the species. We don’t corrupt everything on this planet, just mostly…
Supposedly, Sarah Palin was on point with a ‘gotcha’ moment last weekend when she and her entire brood got involved in huge brawl. I first saw the story this morning at Raw Story, then there’s an update at Wonkette, and finally this version from Alaskan blogger, Amanda Coyne: As many of us have read, Bristol Palin…
