War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Surge really isn’t the absolute-right description right now for the spread of COVID-19, it’s more like a tsunami without precedent, a whiplash of horror. Last month was the shits (CBS News yesterday afternoon): The United States reported more than 4 million coronavirus cases in November, which is higher than the total number of cases seen all year…
Ending of the Thanksgiving four-day spread this early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley, first of two precarious holiday functions to finish out one shitty year, Christmas/New Year now approaching in sight. Outside just now doing a BM (Black&Mild, Wine), the small backyard of my daughter’s apartment was quiet and near-serene, though, Merced city traffic…
A settled-quiet this early-evening Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — a welcome respite from a torturous grind of information producing a sad form of befuddled anxiety, or maybe, and most-likely, I’m experiencing just a station-break from this year’s clusterfuck of unsettling, weird-ass Twilight Zone episodes. News reports today seemed a bit blurry, looking like…
Actual reality of this day via the great Mark Twain: Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for — annually, not oftener — if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous…
As the T-Rump readies himself to pardon the annual turkey this near-midday Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley, the real story of the holiday season is rolling hard — ‘US Covid-19 cases could reach 20 million by Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, according to a new modeling forecast from Washington University in St. Louis.‘ Meanwhile, from John Hopkins…
As surging COVID-19 explodes across the US tallying-up record numbers with no immediate end in sight, the T-Rump, supposed leader of any national response to this catastrophic crisis, instead blows off an international summit on pandemic preparation, and hit the links: The two-day G20 summit started today, and due to the coronavirus was connected by…
Horror of the 2020 election continues today as the T-Rump is still holding on fast to pure, unbridled bullshit. As he demonstrated yesterday during a quick press briefing, where after again proclaiing, “I won,” declined to take reporters questions. Media queries, however, floated after he tried to leave, the epitome in the time of the…
As COVID-19 surges, the very assholes who claim it’s all a hoax and let the people die are testing positive for the disease. This morning Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida announced he’d tested positive — the seventh GOP senator infected by the deadly shit since it started, and a mass of them the last…
Crystal-clear and chilly this early-evening Thursday in California’s Central Valley as we bring another dislocated workweek close to completion — one more day and we’re into the weekend. Yeah — screamed in a faintly-audible whisper. Not the normal weekend, though, as California on Saturday will start a curfew due to surging COVID-19 cases. Announced this…
Another day in the life, and it sucks. Mainly because we have a psychotic monster in charge of our country. And apparently likely to get worse, both with COVID-19, and with the monster. Adm. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary of health who leads the government’s COVID testing efforts, said yesterday we be nearly fucked: “Right now,…
