War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Steady rain and a gray quiet this afternoon — war the topic. Yet what is war? Via CNN: Mass shootings have been occurring more frequently in recent years, an FBI study shows, with nearly one incident a month from 2000 to 2013…Seventy percent of the incidents “occurred in either a commerce/business or educational environment,” the…
Rain in the gutters this early Wednesday on California’s north coast — NWS reports ‘Heavy Rain’ today with three-quarters to one inch expected. After just waking up sometime this morning between one and two o’clock, I was sing-songed back to sleep just at the rainstorm’s arrival — an orchestrated musical, lightly starting with a single, soft…
Windy, darkly-overcast, and storm-awaiting this afternoon here on California’s north coast — supposedly this up-coming wet-weather front could maybe douse us with a couple of inches of rain. And the wind is more-than brisk, gusting supposedly up to 25 mph, and really warm — winds coming out of the south, from over the Pacific, and…
Overcast and awaiting some forecast rain this Tuesday morning on California’s north coast — right now, warm and quiet. And once again, the spark of ‘shock and awe’ in darkness as the US started its bombing campaign against ISIS, the initial strikes aimed at command centers in Syria: “This is the punch in the nose…
Overcast and quiet this early Monday on California’s north coast — outside my apartment the world seems slow in moving, as if putting off a hardscrabble reality a few minutes longer. And the forecast does call for more rain this week, starting maybe as early as tonight, and getting fairly heavy by Wednesday — or…
Some non-comedic events the last couple days with security drama on the West Wing. Or at least close enough, and spiced with some insightful crazy. Via USAToday about the guy who jumped the White House fence on Friday, sprinted 70 yards to the front door and manged to get inside before he was subdued: The Associated…
Dark-thirty still this Sunday morning on California’s north coast — fog dwells deep around streetlights, and life is way-freaking quiet. Time really flows away writing a post for my blog here — right now it’s a little after six o’clock, probably near an hour away from first light, and most-likely will be eight, or nine…
Foggy and gray this early Saturday on California’s north coast, and the beat goes on. In the ugly mists of current events — odd, violent and bad — flooding a weekend/news cycle-dump, I was awash this morning with a fresh, pleasantly-nice, tingly sensation (way-rare nowadays) upon discovery today is the birthday of one my all-time,…
Ground fog, and most-likely way up in the dark, there’s overcast skies here on California’s north coast — Friday morning; and ain’t we just burning the shit right-through September? And 2014? A whole year — nearly gone already. A near-three-week retiree, I haven’t felt any time-travel slow-down either. And I do practically nothing, which blows…
Overcast still, but no rain showers, though, dark as shit in the early afternoon. Modern life sometimes appears asshole-contradictory — Cheetah this: A study found that the violence displayed by chimpanzees was not caused by human disturbances, but rather the behavior is innate to the species. We don’t corrupt everything on this planet, just mostly…
