War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
A quick skid off the rails this late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — hot again, so what’s new. Maybe a bit off the beaten path for a couple of items, both a look at self-serving assholes, both creepy, both dangerous. First, a robot displays side effects of humanoid-like devices keeping the machine’s idea…
Crazy, deadly times this Sunday evening in the American war zone of the nowadays: A round-up of sorts via Axios this afternoon: An outdoor high school graduation party in Summerton, South Carolina, ended in bloodshed after two cars pulled up to a house and before shots were fired. Eight people were hit, according to a…
Grayish-cloud overcast this late-afternoon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — and way-cooler, too, then the previous few days. Supposedly, we’re in a small cool space until next week when the fire of summer is rekindled again. I don’t look forward to the next 90 days or so, weather/environment/outside ambiance is concerned, and not just…
Overcast and breezy but still hot as heck this early-evening Thursday here in California’s Central Valley. Away from the InterWebs for a good while today, I didn’t catch the initial reports of a law enforcement clusterfuck in the handling of the massacre Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tx, and then during my afternoon…
Another sad, horror-of-guns in America today (via The Washington Post): ‘Eighteen children and three adults were killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary, Texas Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D) said Tuesday on CNN. He said he learned of the higher death toll from a briefing with the Texas Rangers.‘ Initial reports from earlier and a disheartening…
Another Ukraine daily war episode — nearly a week’s worth now — and apparently from all indications the whole horrible affair could be nasty and long-lived until there’s an end or whatever nutcase Vlad Putin deems as an end, and the world titters on the tatters created by the action. Putin appears a number of…
After nearly a full week of the ebbing of sickness, I’m feeling somewhat better this early-evening Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — although I never ventured out today, we experienced another bright, beautiful one in a continuing string of spring-like weather, which doesn’t augur well for the awful coming heat of summer. Enough of…
Overcast and chilly this early-evening Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — another gorgeous winter day until late in the afternoon, and fairly warm for the season this morning. Weathering the weather is nothing well-worth mentioning if you are careful. However, the governance landscape sucks because one of only two major political parties in this…
Drizzling still this early-evening Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley, after a day full of deep-overcast skies and continuous threat of hard rain — reportedly, maybe some sunshine tomorrow before another storm slated for next week, and the new year. In the air, climate disaster seems close at hand. And art mirrors reality — listen…
Insane our current place in history although a time of great knowledge — a dangerous, highly-infectious disease is surging around the world and, for reasons beyond real understanding, is especially gushing here in the US (CNN this afternoon): ‘They come as doctors expect the holiday coronavirus surge, driven by the highly contagious Omicron variant, to…
