War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Sunshine galore and cold this late-afternoon Wednesday here in Calfornia’s Central Valley — supposedly a few days of sunny respite from the heavy wet, though, more rain forecast for the weekend. Meanwhile, in the Ukraine war zone, it appears Vlad Putin’s troops/army is losing big time, not only in human troops killed or wounded but…
Drizzling rain in way-chilly wind this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley, continuing this winter’s wettest-in-a-while season of storms and weather-whatnot (chaos and turbulence). Despite the way-wet environment, we’re not that bad off where I’m located — a goodly chunk of the state is snowbound, along with all that implies, like no power and…
Rain and cold wind this early-evening Monday here in California’s Central Valley — we are still in the throes of our second big winter storm in less than two months of the new year as snow in LA is not a movie about cocaine in Hollywood. We’re forecast for maybe some sunshine toward the end…
Of course, due to the hardcore musical fact Led Zeppelin’s 1971 “Stairway To Heaven” is so known, so overwhelmingly continuously common, the riff of all time can’t be played without a music-store employee going “a little funny in the head” without the proper drugs to soothe the earworms. The song has withstood the test of…
Here we are with another plea this Saturday afternoon to please, please buy my novel, “Brown-Eyed Girl With A Cold Corona,” on sale now. In effect, though, in about two weeks, ‘Corona‘ will actually have been on sale for a whole, full-year — I self-published in March 2022 via Outskirts Press — and being shitty…
A milestone today — one year since Vlad Putin’s Russian invasion of Ukraine, and despite the notion the incursion would be a cakewalk to Kyiv and that would be that, months later, the war is a horror — the Russian army is losing and maybe even has already lost, but that won’t stop Vlad. In…
Rainy, dark and ominous, and cold as shit this near-noon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — the big winter storm we expected yesterday came crashing down on us during the night, with heavy winds and a lot of rain. Blustery day and week ahead no doubt now. Our forecast ringing true: Big burst of…
Sunny and cold this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — nearly-exact the opposite of our forecast. We were supposed to at least have some rain by now, and for a while, it looked like it would happen, and then seemingly, and suddenly, sunshine reappeared (it’d been gorgeous in the morning) and the day…
In further ado of Randy’s delightful visual essay, via Dictionary.com: ‘Alternative facts have been called many things: falsehoods, untruths, delusions. A fact is something that actually exists—what we would call “reality” or “truth.” An alternative is one of the choices in a set of given options; typically the options are opposites of each other. So…
An occasional bright shine slices through white and thick, furry clouds this early-afternoon Wednesday in California’s Central Valley, a distinct change from earlier today. When I took Leroy for his daily walk the sky was practically transparent, with only way-tiny cloud patches obscuring warm, nice-feeling sunshine. However, the weather does make adjustments, and it didn’t…
