War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Doomscrolling truly in surfing the news this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — shit, I could be anywhere and would still come across story after fucking story of shit happening, most sorry to say, preventable to some degree. Even a high school shooting tossed in for good measure, just to break the horrid,…
Another boilermaker day — 109-degrees outside right now (late-afternoon Monday in California’s Central Valley) — as we spin through work-week kick-off with shit hitting the fan everywhere. Probably the most-historic event today was an end to an inspired bit of action begun a month shy 20 years ago, but quickly shit the roost, and now…
Another heavy news day, but I’m after the lesser noted items on this Friday’s News Dump day. The following a few incidents/thingies that caught my eye this afternoon — first off a good dive into the Afghanistan cesspool (h/t Susie): Ezra Klein, writer/political analyst and at one time, a biggie blogger, had a must-read piece…
Joe Biden is handling a shocker this afternoon, usually in his normal, low-key stand-out approach on the bombings in Afghanistan (death toll has risen, now 13 in total of American military fatalities, with 14 wounded), as the US/NATO endgame’s intensity will most-likely kick-up a notch or two. Supposedly, suicide assholes from the Afghan chapter of…
Warm but pleasant this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — supposedly below normal temperatures the last few days (and felt it, too!), but back to triple-digits by the weekend as summer quickly drags to a close. Weather nowadays is just weather inside a Twilight Zone episode. Along with a shitload of other stuff,…
As a nation, we’re stuck between a rock and a hard place — the rock is the COVID Delta variant, and the hard place are Republicans — even with a vaccine receiving FDA approval, the death cult is intent on killing all of us: Yet first, they’re killing themselves — the Sturgis, South Dakota, motorcycle…
Life continues, and war will keep rolling along, too, even if brakes are applied: Biden’s been pretty-straight about the Afghan shit so far, and this morning he apparently kept it going — via NPR: In a televised address from the White House, Biden said the administration’s first priority in Kabul is getting American citizens out…
Contradiction and lack of any kind of self-awareness is a mainstay of being an idiot Republican nowadays, even if death is on the line: If DeathSantis is not aware, maybe he should be instructed — sarcasm a must from Andy Borowitz at The New Yorker yesterday: TALLAHASSEE (The Borowitz Report) — A group of Florida’s…
Latest installments of the Afghan-disaster chronicles this Friday afternoon, and how fast the week when shit happens. A cascade of events, going from reality to denial. One note of the extreme measures of getting to the airport — via the Guardian‘s live blog this afternoon: The Pentagon said on Friday that the US used three…
Another brown-tinted environment this mid-day Friday here in California’s Central Valley, painted with way-faded yellow sunshine, mingled in with a thin-overcast layer of a hazel-colored sky. Air-breathing outside literally sucks: Our region still looks like Mars and smells like burnt wood, maybe/probably due to all those freaking fires — from The Fresno Bee yesterday afternoon…
