War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Update Below A good piece this morning in the New York Times, illustrating why global peoples are in for some way-hard, climate-change-days due to the fact that although nearly every other nation accepts climate change as a pressing problem, America has turned agnostic on the issue. And nobody seems to be paying much attention to…
(Illustration found here). Early Tuesday here on California’s northern coast and listening to neighbors act like loud assholes at this early hour makes me want to scream, lash out into the dark, pierce the clear, clean air with a shitload of curses. Although I’ve been awake awhile, and I’m fully awake right now, the disturbance…
US politics suck really, really bad. Although Bubba Clinton was talking about climate change, he could have been discussing the state of America in the eyes of the whole world via an ugly, laundry-list of dumb-ass crap, from finance to the turmoil in a badly-shod political system — an embarrassing, socially awkward and more-than-pathetic joke.…
The Gulf of Mexico: Seen from space, seemingly shimmering in shades of 3-D-green-and-blue, looking so fertile, sprawled open like a priceless pearl floating carefree in that proverbial oyster bed of life — a most-wondrous sight of nature. (Illustration found here). Yeah, well, not so fast there Juan Ponce de Leon: One might want to place…
Ten years ago today was a Monday. In those times, my then-21-year-old daughter was back living at home, working in the area while engaged to a sailor stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, and supposedly set to join him out there after the new year. As she was getting ready to move, my daughter didn’t have a…
Nice to see events carry a note of ‘all’s well, that ends well,‘ plus stages a solid demonstration of like-people taking quick advantage of a given situation. Via Raw Story: A truck carrying a large quantity of marijuana wrecked in San Jose earlier this week, scattering its cargo across a roadway and creating a feeding…
Home from the holiday — nearly a decade since I’d had one of those ‘paid vacations‘ and it was a most-awesome trip. Since not a real trusting sort, and with my Jeep Comanche currently being in a most-mysterious mechanical condition (to me, anyway), I journeyed south by AmTrak last week to visit a couple of…
Greased-nuts-and-bolts and impractical machinery — reality’s pixilated dream of an era coming quickly to an end. Peak oil appears to the naked eye less chaotic than climate change — a not-so-violent soft and gradual approach to cheap energy’s end without the visual horror and/or living through floods, tornadoes, fires, famine and drought as produced by…
Today is ex-Beatle Ringo Starr’s birthday — he’s 71. SEVENTY-ONE! WTF! The boy is suddenly a freakin’ old man. Seems just like the day before yesterday when Ringo responded to the question, ‘Are you a Mod, or a Rocker?’ with the famous toss-off: “Um no,I’m a mocker.” Does time move faster as you get older,…
“Well, we’ll not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit’s dynamite. — Graham Chapman as King Arthur in ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail‘ By way-far, Monty Python was (and still is) the most original, outlandish and side-busting funniest group of twits ever to light up an entertainment venue. One of the most hilarious, and profound,…
