War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Overcast and cold this early Wednesday evening here in California’s Central Valley — a rainy out-of-doors, too. We do feel like it’s raining all over the world, especially among the imbecilic. An example of knowing one and being one — Tony Blair, famous from the Iraqi war days of yore and who most-likely has some…
As Republicans slowly-swiftly strangle democracy at the voting booth, there doesn’t seem to be much we can do, other than get as many people out to vote next November as possible. Until then: Shitty details via NBC News yesterday: State Republicans spent 2021 hunting for the widespread voter fraud that former President Donald Trump told…
Fallout off Joe Manchin’s back-stabbing Joe Biden’s Build Back Better act continues to flare and fester, especially as it’s known Manchin is just being a asshole-douchebag — news right-off-the-bat this morning and his core realities (HuffPost): Publicly, his biggest gripes are about the cost of the bill. But privately, Manchin has told his colleagues that…
Monday morning and Omicron time: US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy this morning (CNN): ‘“In the coming weeks, Tony, we are going to see a spike in cases. And that’s because Omicron is incredibly transmissible, and you know, we have to be prepared for that,” Murthy said. “But there will be a stark difference between…
Dense, chilly fog here mid-day Sunday in California’s Central Valley, a full-scale return to our ‘tule fog‘ bullshit once again after some rain last week, with the version this morning a thick, near-opaque gray in absolutely-zero wind — zilch in any kind of movement. A simile in the ugly Joe ‘MonsterMash’ Manchin — : In…
As the COVID pandemic appears to be getting ready to hit the high-surge button again, this particular virus news story this morning was not top of a lot of media lists, usually well down on homepages — maybe we already knew this shit, or something (per CNN): Trump administration officials made “deliberate efforts to undermine…
In the flow of news this Thursday afternoon, here’s a potpourri post of politics and an oddity of what makes the nowadays weird as shit — and a future-looking narrow hope right now. If Republicans weren’t bad enough — Democrats have their own asshole stopper in putting the Build Back Better on hard hold (Wonkette…
Awaiting the clouds to roll away this mid-day Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, in a move that hopefully will spark some supposed sunshine this afternoon — no rain forecast until next week. Weathering the non-weather is key. One shitty non-weather thing Republicans continually do (among a buttload of things) is downplay or deny something…
Pandemic agitation and horror continue as it appears the US, and most likely the world, will feel a COVID-19 surge this winter (sooner than later) and despite all the vaccines you’d need/want being readily available in this country, the situation is scary in its foolishness. As of this Wednesday evening and according to Johns Hopkins…
In the wake of political news, some climate change notes as we weather tornadoes, atmospheric rivers and other natural calamitous-phenomenon increasing in chaotic intensity as the world warms hotter and hotter. Another must-read climate feature from The New York Times yesterday — a view of the Southern Ocean where Antarctica is going crazy: “From no…
