Compatible Creatures by Bruce Maulden
War, Politics, and Life
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…
Hardcore story ending badly today pumped by climate change: The town noted above, Lytton, was the centerpiece news-spot this past week after breaking the record for highest temperature ever recorded in Canada three days in a row. Now the heat has really arrived — via CTV News this afternoon: After a dangerous fire forced all…
A shitload of news already this Thursday, and we’re just at mid-morning right now. Most of the shit is depressing and there’s some weird mixed-in, though, as a country based on the optics we’ve in for a rough road ahead. Almost all of news items can be directly/indirectly traced to chaos/bullshit coming from the bowels…
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…
As weather/climate change has become a major, near-continous, much-copious series of news stories, this a fortuitous film moment in Kansas: Not much information beyond the video — did find this via Yahoo: ‘In the midst of heavy rain, a car was suddenly struck by lightning in Waverly, Kansas. A father, mother and children were inside…
Outside the normal news cycle this afternoon, a couple of interesting science/health items caught my eye earlier as I was close-to-normal-constantly Doomscrolling the InterWebs, seeing them created a curiosity as one could apply to me personally, the other to this country. And of course, I’m involved with both. Initially this bothered me because of my…
Starting to get warmer this mid-morning Tuesday here in Califoria’s Central Valley — we’re temp-wise forecast for triple-figures again by mid-afternoon, but the bad heat seems past us, for right now. Low-90s reportedly rest of the week and on into the weekend. Added distress for my elderly-eradicated brain today is the current news on that…
The nasty, dangerous and anti-American scene at the US Capitol earlier this year will always be most-likely one odd bit of national history — the off-tune is reality. Live TV and video later showed a hardcore, cruel attack on a government building with the express mission of changing an election outcome, with five people dying…
Despite what your eyes and ears tell you, a shitload of Americans are just plain brain-fucked as the attack last January on the US Capitol building has gone from an insurrection/riot to a tourist walk to FBI-induced event to now it’s all Joe Biden and Democrats fault — Repubicans are atrociously insane, gripping the country…
