War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Artwork by Amina Sallam, and found here.) Another fine autumn late afternoon here in California’s Central Valley and a good end to the weekend, weather-wise. In the sense of happy days, though, it’s all pretty much gone to shit. Although outside there are clear skies and sunshine, inside there’s an ominous, unhealthy tint to the…
Rain clouds but no rain to speak of this late afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley — maybe we’ll get some more of the wet stuff tonight and tomorrow, but so far it’s been a bust for precipitation for the region. Of course, not so everywhere — maybe ask the folks way-wet in Japan,…
Overcast with on-and-off sprinkling showers this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — fairly-heavy rain forecast for tomorrow, so we’re going to be wet for a couple of days. In scrolling the news this afternoon — and today mostly — did run across a couple of tweets that seemed to tie together the horror…
Legal shit pertaining to the T-Rump world is always a stall-ass clusterfuck of delays. This evening another setback in the Mar-a-Lago document affair — judge asshole again:: From the Lawfare blog this evening: Dearie has been in federal judicial service since 1986, when he was appointed by Ronald Reagan and served as chief judge from…
Another T-Rump White House tell-all book offers up the starling news the Orange Turd is a horrible, horrible human being and way-fucking mentally disturbed. Surprised? Of course not. Yet it’s still way-unbelievable that this mean, nasty, unhinged asshole was the most powerful man on earth for four years, and how we all dodged any number…
Beyond whether or not the T-Rump will attend the funeral for Queen Elizabeth, the war in Ukraine is again nailing the top news story for the day — and a bonus is how the Ukrainian military played the Russkies like a cheap-suited fiddle in a way-low-brow chess match: In a quick-read essay this morning at…
Temps still in triple digits this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — we’re at 110 degrees right now, and still a couple of hours of daylight left, and with it maybe some cooling. Heat is normal in the times of the abnormal. In a news day shaded near-completely by all kinds of stories…
Major-crater story this Thursday noon, and probably for a few days hence — Queen Elizabeth II has died, aged 96. Typical of the stories to be posted — per the Guardian‘s Iive blog: Standing outside the gates of Balmoral as the sombre news of the Queen’s death was announced were two accident and emergency nurses…
Today one of the nicest events in recent memory — Barack and Michelle Obama returned to the White House for the unveiling of their official White House portraits in a ceremony hosted by Joe and Jill Biden. The event was fun, and touching, and a sweet reflection of good humor as the world goes to…
Although idiotic, the T-Rump has been a tight-fisted asshole with his lawyers for a long time. Beyond the creepy judges he appointed, and the bullshit legal, half-witted maneuvers in the Mar-a-Lago documents scandal, this item on paying one of his attorneys in horse flesh instead of real cash takes the nightmarish horror-cake. Another revealing T-Rump…
