War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
The tragic death of Aaron Swartz continues to make waves on the soft, sandy beaches of the InterWebs. Swartz was only 26 when he committed suicide a couple of weeks ago when an impending legal case apparently became too hard to bear — a near-empty case until federal prosecutor Carmen Ortiz decided to use Swartz…
Cloudy and rainy this Saturday morning on California’s north coast, creating an Old Testament-gothic-like feeling of sadness and depression. Except — just now seen from my back patio, a small hole opening in the thick-cloud layer, sun streams pouring through in awesome Cecil D. Demille fashion, dramatic and soul stirring, even beautiful. Reality, however, burns…
The chronicle of Aaron Swartz got a little more twisted this afternoon with the inclusion of the US Secret Service into the supposed legal case against him — I really don’t understand how the freakin’ Secret Service could/should be involved in a case like this. Reportedly, Swartz was arrested in July 2011, charged with illegally…
Overcast, and for an early January morning, a bit on the warm side, considering this is supposed to be winter. So much for the weather! Yesterday was payday at the liquor store I manage, and motherf*cker, was it a piss-ant, sad and depressing chore. (Illustration found here). We’re a rarity — payday is weekly, instead…
Clear and cold this morning along California’s northern coast, this the absolute-last day of 2012, which in relation to previous years, wasn’t all that great, and apparently won’t end graciously, either. The word, “weather,” will be one of the words used to describe the dying 2012, not only in the meteorological format, but also in…
Crystal clear and covered in bright sunshine this early Sunday morning along California’s northern coast and on this extreme-last Sunday of 2012, the future beckons with skeletal fingers. And we’re hanging by the short hairs: The accelerating cycles of capitalism’s creative disruption have reached a new velocity with the basic form known as stock trading.…
Crazy-ass world we now inhabit — although it’s wet and chilly this morning up here along California’s northern coast, the weather across the US is odd-ball at best. An indication is snow fall — last March, Chicago got some snow, but now have gone 281 straight day without the white stuff, while slightly to the…
Drizzling rain this morning along California’s northern coast, with a slight touch of some ground fog, but the air feels warm — which is what really counts. Wet and cold don’t mix. This morning’s storm has apparently ended its series run on a quieter note: “The winds will be much lighter than over the weekend.…
Cold and rainy this early Friday morning up here along California’s northern coast — the first taste of winter a-coming, though, due to an elusive El Nino, the the NOAA has reported our region could be about 40 percent drier for the next three months. Weather, however, lives by natural rules, not slides and charts…
All over now but the screaming. The big, wonderful news last night: Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren. (And as a side issue by the way, President Obama is still president — albeit “razor tight“). And with hope, Mitt Romney disappears forever trying to find his car elevators. Nearly anti-climatic this election, though, you’d never have thunk that…