War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Bright sunshine and nearly-clear skies this Thursday morning on California’s north coast and supposedly will continue the rest of the week, the seemingly always present fog bank notwithstanding. Rain this weekend — 20-30 percent, and looks a front spread out over a few days. Marijuana back in the news with studies on use/abuse, or the…
A real-radical for this election cycle — in a post earlier today, I noted the hard-math concerned with avoiding the real-nasty aspects of climate change, and how most-likely the effort to reverse it would require a ‘World War II–style mobilization,’ and therefore comes Bay Area attorney, Mikelis Beitiks, who’s now after the retiring Barbara Boxer’s…
Overcast with a strong marine fog influence this early Wednesday on California’s north coast with predictions for the gray-matter to burn off by early afternoon. Despite the dark layer, no rain expected until Sunday, then just a ‘slight chance’ if any. Yesterday turned out gorgeous, but for the year, still warming up. Last month was…
An earthquake alone is shitty enough, a ‘swarm’ is horror — the latest cluster-shake is happening in the East Bay, with more than 200 recorded since last week. And the rattling continues (via ABC News yesterday): A magnitude-3.5 temblor struck around 4 p.m. It actually hit just six seconds after a weaker 2.8 quake struck, initially…
Bright sunshine and a cool Pacific breeze this late Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast — no rain forecast until at least the first part of next week. The season does cometh, though, and right now there’s memory’s worth of pleasure in the vivid-clear, near-cloudless weather. Beyond expected rain and snow, the approaching El Niño…
As the fall turns into winter here on California’s north coast, another nasty-nugget from the lie-archives of the Iraqi war — according to a leaked memo, in public, Tony Blair was a seeker of peace, in private he was in war-cahoots with George W at least a year before the invasion. Ironic considering the GOP-inflamed…
Quickly-creeping overcast this Monday morning on California’s north coast — looks-likely we might be getting some ‘showers‘ anytime now as a storm front glides across the shoreline. According to the NWS, 30 percent before noon, then ‘Partly Sunny.’ According to WXshift, our rain totals have sloped in the last 45 years — in 1970, our…
Overcast cushioned with a moist-fog here this Friday afternoon on California’s north coast, and precipitation-warm, with rain still expected maybe tonight and into tomorrow. Forecasts call for just a quick rain patch, however, so small appears gone and dry-again by Sunday, predicted by the NWS to be ‘Mostly Sunny.’ Our drought continues, even though forecasts…
In the late-1960s in high school, I for a time devoured the work of James Michener, starting with “The Fires of Spring” (a spot-on narrative for an introverted, nerd/dork seeking a mysterious/romantic life), then maybe “Hawaii,” or “Tales of the South Pacific,” to “The Source,” and later, “The Drifters” — stories firing an intuitive desire…
Until just recently, marijuana had been considered outside the bubble of reality, playing on the edges of society, despite pot’s huge following, and maybe next year it will be actually legal. A longtime-a-coming last Friday, Gov. Jerry Brown okayed rules for all aspects of the weed industry, from the growing, to the shitload of by-products,…
