War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Crystal-clear skies and a fingernail-moon brighten this way-too-early Friday on California’s north coast as we continue our our warmest summer ever: The official thermometer read 74 degrees, topping the previous best of 72 recorded in 1991. Sweltering! Weather isn’t scary enough? Just wait for the pants-shitting fright to dawn. (Illustration found here). Beyond the now-widening debacle…
Rain lightly-spattered windows this early Sunday on California’s north coast, but now a couple hours later, outside is just foggy and wet — an observation made from the confines of my back patio, of course. According to local weather forecasts, we’ve still got about a 30 percent chance of more rain today, then back next…
Yipee! It’s Friday! Overcast a little bit up here on California’s north coast, but we’re on the cusp of a weekend so the weather is just a prelude to joyful two days away from the public. And the public sucks — at least down the manhole of private affairs. President Obama’s vow of an “outside”…
Deep ground fog this early Wednesday up here along California’s north coast — no ‘Blue Moon‘ seen in these parts. Just a bad moon rising — ha! And stilted moonshine is blinking on assholes who call themselves journalists, but yet are waging a war against journalism — mostly because of money and power, I suppose.…
A bit overcast this way-too-early Monday here on California’s north coast, with a near-full-moon brightening the skies — and it was another really, really short weekend. Just two days to recover from five days is just bad math. And I want the NSA to know right up front — I Googled you! So fuck off,…
After working in several newspaper newsrooms in my long-ago-formal journalism career, and although there’s been some ugly motions the last few years crying a dooms-day end to old fashioned media, modern life might be aiding a news-gathering recovery — people’s news by the peoples. Despite the closing of newspapers, reporters losing jobs, technology and the…
Overcast and quiet again this early Thursday here on California’s north coast, the sounds of silence screeching all across the lonely, lost world. But we are not alone. Yesterday, two important stories ‘leaked’ via the news cycle — one was that Bradley Manning’s awful leaks “…that no instances were ever found of any individual killed…
Unbelievable but true — it’s Monday! And overcast and chilly this morning on California’s north coast as we gear up for another fact-tested work week. All is well. Big climax this morning — Kate is in labor, and a royal baby to due at any micro-second. The world awaits and will apparently hold it’s collective…
Another weekend shot into the film void, this time it’s the much-talked-about ‘House of Cards,’ of which I witnessed the first half (of 13 episodes) yesterday on Netflix, and all at one sitting. Of course, ‘Cards‘ is a Netflix original, thus the slimy slice of life is portrayed with a sense of ordinary horror generally…
Well, here we are — Friday! And it’s the normal ground fog and chilly this morning on California’s north coast and a way-early time right now, but it will be later soon. Oh, no — I feel the vapors coming: “Rolling Stone is a music magazine, not the Taliban Times,” so says one nit-twit on…
