War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Another Friday — yippee! Clear this early morning on California’s north coast and in the words of the lady at my bank yesterday: “Tomorrow’s the first of November. What’s up with that?” Yeah, what’s that shit? Time appears to be galloping hard toward some shining point in the way-near future, but what point is that…
Clear and way-chilly this way-early Thursday morning on California’s north coast, a quiet repose for one our more-dumb holidays — Halloween. Even with the good weather, business for the liquor store I manage has tanked and shit-economics is to blame. Our worse business spot for the year is the deep crevasse between Labor Day and…
Clear and chilly again this way-early Wednesday on California’s north coast, the moon hanging like a bright fingernail in the eastern sky. This morning some ugly from DC — both came yesterday via the heavens. First, the first Pakistani victims of a US drone strike testified in Congress. Rafiq Rehman and his two children, Zubair,…
Clear and chilly this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — might be the same set-up as yesterday when fog rolled in just before dawn bringing some cold temperatures. But as in the nature of things, sunshine arrived about mid-day and the afternoon was gorgeous. Who knows. President Obama seems to know the nature of…
In less than six short months, out has popped a storyline that just still won’t go away — America’s big spy agency is shown to be a cankered sore on a near-day-to-day basis. Now, the Angela Merkel (and near-about everybody else on the planet) episode. Mark Urban at the BBC summed up this farce of ‘intelligence’…
Surprise, surprise on Monday morning — crystal-clear skies with twinkling stars, a rare sight for us here on California’s north coast the last few weeks. Until right now, fog and more fog. And a welcome sight for an otherwise just another self-loathing, asshole Monday. Shit over the weekend makes one wonder if everyday isn’t Monday.…
As the entire planet goes to shit in a wire basket, this is a giggle — Thursday afternoon in Georgia, a quick-erupting fire forced eight people, including two children, to scramble for safety, but one of the grown-ups, Walter Serpit, with the aid of his cane, went back for his beer: “I told them to get…
Here we are in one word — Friday! Chilly and overcast up here on California’s north coast as we gleefully trot off into the weekend. Despite a lot of other shit happening, the NSA soap opera continues apparently unabated — beyond the leaders of Mexico, Germany, France, the Netherlands, others I forget, the US intelligence…
Some more bad noises today on the melting Arctic: “And it is really in the past 20 years that the warming signal from that region has been just stunning,” he added. “All of Baffin Island is melting, and we expect all of the ice caps to eventually disappear, even if there is no additional warming.” Hottest…
High overcast this early Thursday on California’s north coast — we’re now so close to the weekend it’s not funny. And what’s not funny is guns and kids, what’s up with that? This week has had a horrendous display of firearms and youngsters, and even school killings in general, and the trend seems to be…