War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
A warm comfortable outside this mid-day Friday here in California’s Central Valley — we haven’t felt the rigorous heat reportedly scorching through the Pacific Northwest, but the day is still young. Today, too, is purportedly the day the T-Rump will be reinstated as POTUS — at least to the bat-shit crazy QAnon/Republican freaks who cause…
As we blunder toward the end of another work week, the climate of human society sucks through a way-small straw. If we can’t even get a portion of Americans to adopt way-obvious, life-saving methods to end/slow-down a horrible, deadly pandemic, how in the shit can we get these same assholes to help take action against…
Although there’s some thin cloud cover this Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, the outside is still hot with the high today forecast to be in triple digits again, and a real scorcher is supposedly scheduled for this weekend. One must weather the weather. However, political weather is a little harder to suffer through, especially…
Heavy-heat again this Wednesday afternoon here in California’s Central Valley, though, we’re not sweltering alone — seemingly the whole freaking world is boiling. The Pacific Northwest and BC Canada are catching the top-crust warmth with another ‘heat-dome attack‘ driving temperatures to massive heights, while seemingly near-in concert, another ‘dome’ act is scorching the eastern US,…
In a fresh uplifting-downward this Wednesday afternoon in the seemingly never-ending horror story that’s the COVID-19 pandemic, now in its super-wicked ‘Delta’ version, is a new angle on the mega-power-center of this latest surge as prompted by Republican leaders who are pushing death on a personal-grand scale that seems horribly historic in its hideousness —…
Another Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley and to set the tone, one of my favorite songs done in an unplugged, acoustic form with sentiment — this version became a favorite of mine after an extended hospital stay/and surgery experience three years ago, and listened to it at least a couple of times a day…
One of the more-bizarre and dangerous items on a big-laundry list of shit in the nowadays is the rejection of the obvious in health and science — a pandemic is right-square out in front of the public, and vaccines work. Yet the US — and the world — is currently experiencing a brand-mew COVID surge,…
(Illustration by Afghan artist/activist Jahan Ara Rafi, and found here). Looking beyond the domestic shitstorms this Sunday afternoon of COVID Deltas surges and corresponding displays of cruel ignorance by Republicans, the horrible debacle of Afghanistan continues to get worse — unfortunately, however, a situation just like everything else. I always figured the Taliban would re-take…
Counterpunch to the gosh-awful, bullshit news currently infecting our airwaves, another episode this Saturday of my musical ‘Destination‘ series (last one here), where unusual tunes of personal value create a seemingly alternative auditory diagram to the screaming-loud noises coming off life in 2021 A.D. Eleven years ago at about the turn of the decade, I…
Our most-immediate problem as a country right now (beyond an insurrection, coup, and bat-shit crazy conspiracies) is getting a handle on the COVID pandemic, but as with just about all the most-nagging issues it’s fucking-ass Republicans. COVID, especially the Delta variant, is a hard bitch: ‘Even in California, a state with a vaccination rate well…
