War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Hot and still this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — even right now it’s reported to be 91-degrees, even with a slow-fading sun. Today was also my first T-shirt day this year — usually, I wear at least a sweatshirt in walking Leroy, my daughter’s Basset Hound/Grayhound mix, and until just recently a…
Sunny and warm this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — midweek muddles. In the cascade of news today — from Ukraine to China and back around — I came across this sidebar explainer on how the T-Rump continues to make shitty vibes this election year despite not being on the ballot anywhere. However,…
Bright, sunny late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central valley — windy and a bit still on the refreshing side even with Thursday and Friday forecast for 90-degrees or worse. We’ll take our cool when and where we can, plenty of time ahead to lament the heat. As the Ukrainian situation gets uglier and uglier, the…
Sunny and way-nice this late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley, and we had better enjoy it while we can, the temperatures are expected to climb this week with the low-90s boiling us by the end of the week. Summertime quickly comes. In the flurry of horrible overseas news, one good spot of sunshine for…
(Illustration: “Landscape of Change,” by Jill Pelto, and found here). As the world responds to the war-crime horrors of Vlad Putin’s monstrous invasion of Ukraine, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today released a final chapter in its ongoing, 30-year-plus study of our deteriorating environment, which maybe denotes our circumstances might even already…
Early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — today another sun-splashed one with nice temperatures cooled by gentle breezes. In the sense of external living conditions, this is probably as good as it gets. All downhill from here. In that contextual bottom line, I got tired of the horror out of Ukraine as the war…
Sunshine and breezy this early-evening Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — weekend’s fine but shit doesn’t stop/close down on Friday. A terrible case in point comes naturally as Ukrainians clear the flailing Russian army from towns around Kyiv and other parts of the country, and along with the devastated infrastructure, the horror of senseless…
Warm sunshine this Friday late-afternoon here in California’s Central Valley. as we inch closer and closer to the heat of summer. Weather the hot storm to come is the only avenue for us, for everybody. Especially with democracy in the shape it’s in right now. Despite an economy booming and plenty of jobs out there,…
News cycling through time creates a sense of funny (not necessarily ha-ha funny, though) and draws from a seemingly way-deep well of assorted, vile subject matter, from the absolute horror of T-Rump to the overall horror of Republicans, there’s no end of them nowadays. Lying about everything is the Republican way — elections are stolen,…
Near noon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — another brown-cloud day as we spin the last day of March from a quickening 2022 calendar, a fourth of the once-labeled ‘new year’ about gone already with the approach of the appropriately tagged April Fool’s Day tomorrow. Of course, don’t be an optimist as way-more ugly…
