War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Neatest-funny thingie I’ve seen yet during this special time of this so-far special year — great h/t to Bill in Portland Maine of Cheers&Jeers found at Daily Kos. If you don’t read C&J every weekday morning (except Friday, then in the afternoon) you should receive a lifetime ban from getting anywhere near the kiddie pool:…
Another sad event in the shifting world of good journalism. (Illustration found here). News gathering has always been a hard row-to-hoe, even in the best of times. Technology switched the goal posts all around, which created a vacuum of sorts, especially within a dying breed, print journalism. Just in the last decade-and-half the newspaper industry…
In the midst of an age of awful anxiety, here’s more to the weight — from the Guardian this morning: The heat in the world’s oceans reached a new record level in 2019, showing “irrefutable and accelerating” heating of the planet. The world’s oceans are the clearest measure of the climate emergency because they absorb…
(Illustration: Artwork from the UN’s International Children’s Painting Competition, found here). Raindrops and gray — a wet-touch with color for this early-evening Sunday here on California’s north coast, the air all day clipped by some way-brisk wind — reportedly, should be sunny tomorrow, at least that’s what WunderBlog forecasts. More rain supposedly on Tuesday, followed by…
(Illustration found here) Bright-sunny Wednesday here on California’s north coast, a bit of chill was in the ocean breeze, though, and now near evening-dark, there’s a bite to the cool — clear usually means cold, overcast and rainy, warmer. According to WunderBlog, we’re to expect sunny days until Sunday, then a forecast for rain, and…
A child will lead us, though, maybe too late — the UN climate conference in Katowice, Poland, is happening now, and today 15-year-old Greta Thunberg laid-down the real: “For 25 years countless people have come to the UN climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions…
Occasional bright sunshine intensifies through huge, fluffy clouds this near-noon Friday on California’s north coast — rain reportedly on-and-off until middle of next week, then clear for awhile. A threat of small hail through tonight, though… Clawing away from the T-Rump dumpster-fire/train-wreck currently oozing up in DC, some news in the medical marijuana field, especially…
Absolutely-gorgeous this near-noon Monday on California’s north coast — bright sunshine and a wispy-ocean breeze with temperatures feeling good, too. Supposedly we should spike at about 65-degrees, maybe later this afternoon. Unless the winds crank-up again — over the weekend there was some lashing gusts, reportedly on occasion at more than 50-mph. Just out walking…
Overcast-gray with a bit of patchy ground fog this early Wednesday on California’s north coast — another day in the life along the shoreline. Weather the weather… Beyond the horror of T-Rump this morning, science attempts to understand humanity — in a world of non-stop action, studies beckon on our feelings. Nowadays, an App for…
Fog-bound again this early Friday on California’s north coast — temporary if the recent past reflects the current future. Most-likely sunny and breezy in a coupe of hours. Climate-wise the past is killing the future (via Scientific American): ‘Climate change has claimed its first confirmed mammal extinction. The tiny Bramble Cay melomys (also known as…
