War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
News like this is a bit disconcerting, if not border-line, paranoid-frightful (via USAToday): In tests for arsenic in more than 1,300 samples of rice and rice products, the Food and Drug Administration has found levels vary but overall are far too low to cause any immediate or short-term adverse health effects. … “Nobody wants arsenic,…
Finally — Friday! A little wispy-overcast this morning on California’s north coast as we prepare to handle the weekend — and we’re way-ready for a warm and sun-splashed two days. And it will be fairly serene, too. Not like this planet we inhabit. If the sniping, backtalk and phoney smiles at the G-20 summit in…
Another reinforcing prompt on the quickly-coming-if-not-already-here future — from the Washington Post this afternoon: Manmade climate change played a substantial role in the exceptional warmth in the eastern U.S. during the spring of 2012, a major NOAA-led report concludes. Not only that, it greatly increased the odds of the punishing heat that baked the north central…
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’…
