War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Slightly overcast this way-too-early Thursday on California’s north coast as we wade toward the end of the week. Another scorcher for us as temps are expected to be in the 70s again today, and even hotter into the weekend with Monday’s high forecast to be 91 — whoa! Us old people don’t weather the weather…
Despite the US government’s full-frontal harping for the bombing of Syria, Americans still disagree — from Pew Research: Three-quarters (74 percent) believe that U.S. airstrikes in Syria are likely to create a backlash against the United States and its allies in the region and 61 percent think it would be likely to lead to a…
Clear skies and twinkling stars greeted me earlier this Wednesday morning, but it now appears fog is rolling across the north coast of California, but most-likely by mid-day it will be sweltering with hot-boxed temperatures in the low 70s again — the mid 80s predicted for this weekend. A near-enough tropical heat wave! Up here…
Crystal-clear skies with stars twinkling all over — summer’s still here along California’s north coast and the living is more than easy. Yeah, right! No matter where you live and no matter what the skies look like, nothing is easy nowadays. Although the US Congress is not due back in session until next week, the…
The old Website is having some kind of problem again today — the front page has kind of folded back onto itself and a few of the ingredients here have vanished. A post I did this morning has vanished. My IT guy is working on the problem/problems. Although I write on the Web, work out…
Clear sunshine and a chilly breeze this Sunday morning on California’s north coast as the world starts a new week and a new month — both will have its share of bullshit. In the last few hours/days, all kind of crazy, like President Obama backtracking again on Syria, calling on the US Congress to make the…
Life in the ether ends today for one of the most-interesting and vital sites around, The Oil Drum will become history. Sad state of affairs — I’ll greatly miss the Drum‘s Drumbeat, and more-than-just a wisp of the technical fossil-fuel stories the site carried. Although there’s the cry “peak oil” is no more, and ‘unconventional oil’…
Crystal-clear skies and a fingernail-moon brighten this way-too-early Friday on California’s north coast as we continue our our warmest summer ever: The official thermometer read 74 degrees, topping the previous best of 72 recorded in 1991. Sweltering! Weather isn’t scary enough? Just wait for the pants-shitting fright to dawn. (Illustration found here). Beyond the now-widening debacle…
Thick ground fog this early Thursday on California’s north coast, and quiet, too — can’t even hear the mighty Pacific Ocean only a mile or so away. The air, though, has that quality of quick burn-off once the sun comes up in an hour or so. And we’re still forecast to continue our ‘heat wave‘…
Clear and star-sprinkling skies this early Wednesday along California’s north coast — as the middle of the work week is here, so are thoughts of the week end. Yet two days to go. And this morning, the situation room on the Syrian chaos is getting crowded. The US, however, is pulling a George Jr. ploy…
