War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In the long-short run, conservatives/Republicans are destroying America on many levels, from the ballot box to the classroom, but maybe the worse strike is death — fighting the fighting of a deadly virus that’s already killed more than 600,000 Americans is perhaps the most-immediate concern. Evident in yesterday’s antics at the nutjob CPAC convention in…
Still comfortable outside this mid-morning Saturday here in Californnia’s Central Valley — heat-shit is expected in minutes as we’re forecast for a high of 111-degrees as summer continues unrelenting in its grip on life. Right now with the AC off, I’ve the front door open, back sliding-door open, creating a gentle, near-cool cross-brreze, which will…
Nice and still somewhat-cool this mid-morning Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, though, enjoyable right now, we’re in for some hot-spanking weather later today, and for days into the climate-changing future. Beyond weather and our physical-surrounding environment, we take a quick glance at the shitty mood of politics in America nowadays and how our current…
Today, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter celebrate 75 years of marriage, way-long for any couple, but the longest for presidential twosomes — now well-ahead of the number-two pair, HW and Barbara Bush (73 years 111 days) and despite both being close to 100 seemed to keep-on, keeping on. Jimmy Carter was not one of our better…
Weather and climate continue to be a major news items — today it’s Storm Surge Watches for SW Florida off the approaching Tropical Storm Elsa, weather wise — and reports how a changing, warming climate is freaking out the weather. Difference between weather and climate? Easy — according to the NOAA: ‘Think about it this…
Calamitous karma this morning for the T-Rump’s former right-hand idiot, Jason Miller, as his new start-up, GETTR, a supposedly social media platform, was hacked for a little while, taking emphasis away from the porn images of cartoon characters that have flooded the site, described as ‘a lot like Twitter, except with worse functionality and more…
One continuing reflected aspect of the boiling-over heat wave that placed a ‘dome’ of suffering over the US Northwest and Canada the past week is that climate change is real, here right now, and bad as shit: In Canada, great heat is an oddity, a situation that’s dangerously changing — from CBC News this morning:…
In a sense of relief, I’m not the only one scared shitless and paranoid about America’s democratic future: Details via PBS this morning: Two-thirds of Americans (67-percent) believe democracy in the United States is under threat, according to the latest PBS Newshour/NPR/Marist poll. Ahead of the first Fourth of July since an attack on the…
(Illustration: ‘Map by W.H. Payne, Published by Letts, Son & Co. 19–. Geography and Map Division,’ and found here). When I started this bog, ‘Compatible Creatures,’ more than 14 years ago — April 2007 — the near-daily absolute-main-topic was war. Two of them, in fact. Afghanistan at the time was closing in on its sixth…
Update: A new, unvarnished video view of the Capitol-building attack from The New Times this afternoon — main written detail: The work of understanding Jan. 6 has been hard enough without this barrage of disinformation and, hoping to get to the bottom of the riot, The Times’s Visual Investigations team spent several months reviewing thousands…
