War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In an age where down is down and the stakes are way-up high, President Obama’s leaked budget proposal (officially due this Wednesday) does cough up some change, but not really something the poors can live on: By comparison, Social Security is about 70 percent of the income of a typical retiree. Since President Obama’s proposal…
Raining again this way-early Friday morning on California’s north coast, and warm, too. We need the rain, and the heat takes the bite out of getting quickly soaked. Water and warmth, which together create a way-rainy future, as reported yesterday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): The study also showed a 20-30 percent…
Raining this particular Sunday morning and warm — the last few days have been exceptional, temperatures most-amiable and it might be that summer’s coming quicker than expected. Up here on California’s north coast, however, weather is of the moment, and we have days in January like days in July, which makes any kind of long-range…
High overcast this early Thursday morning, the odd-shaped moon hanging bright through passing clouds, its luster-orb seemingly out over the Pacific — feels warmer out than inside my apartment. Weather up here on California’s north coast has been incredible the last few days. There’s been some rain, but not enough to do anything, or even…
Crystal clear and a bit chilly this wee-early Monday, with the moon hanging like a white orb out over the Pacific. We’re forecast for some rain later today along California’s north coast, but we’ll just have to wait and see — weather here is always of the moment. Parsing through the news this morning, there’s…
Bright and sunny this Sunday afternoon on California’s north coast, and the dreaded wind hasn’t kicked-up as of yet, so the air is warm and easy. Despite Spring being sprung last week, the US midsection is still in the cold stages with a snow-dump forecasted from Kansas to maybe Washington, DC: Add winds gusting up to 40…
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and guns: “I believe that if everybody had guns, then there would be fewer guns in the stores.†(Illustration found here). The interview with Fey came this week from Inside The Actors Studio, hosted by James Lipton on Bravo (my excerpt via Mediaite), and most-assuredly reflects in a most-hilarious way the…
Forgot the DST this morning, even with all the news-site-blurbs yesterday yakking about ‘spring forward’ — a good thing it’s Sunday and there’s no place of got-to-be, so time can just go and kiss my… Ask a lot of US peoples and this lost hour of sleep is “torture,” panic-filled, “with more than a little…
Wondering a bit this evening, reading about another astro-podic close encounter of earth with a chunk of space rock, the one this afternoon ‘…big as a city block…’ glided past about 600,000 miles up — as Reuters explained: That’s about 2-1/2 times as far as the moon, fairly close on a cosmic yardstick. A space…
Clear and cold this Friday morning, but not as cold as it should be — this winter so far has been easy and mild up here along California’s north coast. Weather is like a successful restaurant — all depends on location, location, location. And just a short space away could be disaster. The upper US East Coast…
