War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Warm and comfortable this afternoon on California’s north coast, but way-warm just about everywhere else out here. The LA area is excepting a heat wave this weekend, temperatures in triple digits — this on the heels of exceedingly warm. From the LA Times: The first eight months of 2014 were the warmest on average in…
Last week, a federal judge in New Orleans ruled the 2010 Deepwater Horizon debacle was the result of BP’s “willful misconduct” and “gross negligence.” And can we hear a…’Duh!’ Yet fit to be tied with their panties in a bind. Via Grist: On Wednesday night — just hours before the court’s ruling — Geoff Morrell, the…
Almost a full-sun sunrise this Wednesday morning on California’s north coast, but at the last second, ground fog with an overcast cloud layer muted the air into a thin gray haze. Shucks! I can’t remember the last time we had a sunny sunrise — nevertheless, in a couple of hours or so, sunshine and warm…
In an unusual natural display, apparently there will be a real sun-up this Monday on California’s north coast — the eastern sky is clear-as-glass with an orange glow forming on the horizon. Instead of deep, misty fog as been the constant nearly all summer, the sun has a Kipling mystic: ‘An’ the dawn comes up…
Fog again this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, nothing new but the morning. Still considered in the ‘Partly Cloudy’ genre of weather forecasts, we could top 70 degrees today and the warmth could continue for the rest of the week. My week, though, ends today. This morning ends my more-than seven-year employment at ‘Cask…
In the scope of life on a planet that’s really getting way-close to an enormous insane asylum, the general public is unaware of the infrastructure of normal. The situation in Ferguson, Missouri, for instance, should belong in not only in another country, but in another time — maybe like the 1960s. Fifty years ago, however,…
A bit of ground fog with a kind of warm quiet this early Wednesday on California’s north coast as we fall on through the work week. Beyond the horror of the new normal — beheadings on video, Egypt giving the US advice on crowd control, Rick Perry in jail, and so forth — you get…
As manager of a liquor store, currency handling is a way of life, and one of the most-dirty, nasty and foul things on this earth is money. After awhile, your fingers turn black. One nasty floater is the $100 bill — a Benjamin, or just ‘Ben’ — which is the top dog of currency most-desired…
Light fog and cool this early Monday on California’s north coast as we start another work week. And from this vantage point, Friday looks years away. Today is special — for me. This is my last full-work week as I’m retiring, and the liquor store I manage will have to continue running without me. My…
Deep-blanket fog, bordering on drizzle this Sunday morning on California’s north coast, but unlike a shitload of other places all over this anxiety-riddled, ridiculous world, in a little while we’ll get sunshine and warmth. Technically, the weather people term it ‘Partly cloudy,’ but in reality, it’s as good as it gets — a few clouds…
