War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Overcast with a chilly breeze this early-evening Monday here in California’s Central Valley — a quick turnaround from the heat, a nice break. Not on a break are journalists covering the horror of war now in Israel and the Gaza Strip — even close calls: Nutshell after the scary ‘fuck‘ moment — per The Hill:…
Summer sense in early autumn this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — the temperature now just a little under a hundred degrees, the outside air heavy with heat, creating colors seemingly scraped from some exceptionally odd MC Eisner//Van Gogh oil painting. A little poetic, non-aesthetical bullshit there to immediately instigate a hope-filled grin.…
Another sudden burst of brutal warfare this morning along the Israel/Gaza border baffles the sense of how shitty Bibi Netanyahu and his government are in actually governing — maybe way, way-too close to the Republican brand here in the States. One of several potent points by Robert Farley at Lawyers,Guns&Money this afternoon: ‘The intelligence failure…
Even on Saturday the shit still hits the fan — noontime here in California’s Central Valley and the overreaching news item this morning is Israel and Hamas at war with horror the end result. My main question is why? Meanwhile, here in the ludicrous U-S-of-A, conflict is between the gullible, mentally disturbed, and the rest…
Soft, warm sunshine this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley, another example of a really comfortable fall season — so far. Weather-wise OK, but not so ‘comfortable‘ overall being in the nowadays — such as this afternoon. In a short interval of less than a couple of hours (an attempt at a nap) news…
Early evening Monday here in California’s Central Valley and the horrid life continues unabated. Especially in the repellent antics of the T-Rump (The Daily Beast): A visibly angry Donald Trump appeared in a New York courtroom for the start of a bank fraud trial that has already sentenced his real estate empire to death. A…
(Illustration: ‘Jimmy And Rosalynn Carter,’ art print by illustrator Tom Bachtell, and found here.) Today Jimmy Carter turns 99 — he’s celebrating along with Rosalynn down in Georgia seven months after entering hospice care, supposedly considered on his last legs. And in reality, much like the best of the Carter life, he’s gone beyond all…
Another bright end to another weekend this early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — we’ve been fortunate beyond belief the past few weeks as storms struck right, left and all across the globe. Still, we are so far in a quiet, warm autumn. Weather is hugely location-based — at least for the time being.…
End of another month quickly approaches and is in easy sight this early-evening Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — hard to actually believe/contemplate it’s beyond mid-September already, with even a New Year rapidly just around the perpetual corner as time sure as shit waits for freaking nobody. Shit coming at us full throttle and…
In this age of old age, I am close to the subject as a matter of fact — I turn 75 in a couple of months. Joe Biden will be 81, also in a couple of months (our birthdays are nine days and seven years apart) and age has become a topical topic nowadays with…
