War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Overcast and cool this way-early Monday morning on California’s northern coast, an apt start to another grind-employment week, and a tale-tell online crank-off to cyber business. Disavowing Black Friday’s horror, and since consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity, business folks are wow over Cyber Monday — even the day after…
Here it is, day three of the infamous Thanksgiving holiday blow-bust, and the crowning glory of the bird is yet to show. Landfill we come: The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that Americans throw away 35 percent of the turkey they buy, and that does not include bones. That’s compared to only 15 percent waste…
(Illustration found here). Clear and near-cold this Black Friday along California’s northern coast, and though there’s a chill in the air, the environment is most-comfortable — mainly because I’m staying away from any department stores today with a conceited vengeance. Business people, of course, love this particular day, always have — Bloomberg estimates shoppers will…
My favorite/standard Thanksgiving screed, via Mr. 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 twelve months…
Howling weather again this early Tuesday morning on California’s northern coast as some big storms have pounded the region, though way-much-more up in Oregon and Washington states — what we’re getting here is most likely just flutters off them. Still ain’t pretty — we’re forecast for heavy rain and wind for the rest of the…
Quiet right now on California’s northern coast, but just a few minutes ago wind was ripping the air and rain was pelting my back glass-sliding door, creating a huge discomfort way too early with a dreaded sense of ‘STORM.’ Yet suddenly the chaos was gone, seemingly as if in a flash, near-quickly like a snap…
Clear and chilly this morning here on California’s northern coast, stars twinkling in the sky and sounds distinct from seemingly far, far away. Another day, another week as we grind onward toward the weekend. Best way-put down of the week — Nancy Pelosi on novice nit-twit Luke Russert’s most-thoughtless question on old people and reality:…
One of the great — and most-horrifying — paradoxes of our time is the destructive cycle of humanity’s obsession with oil and its by-products, way-most-notably, gasoline. A vivid illustration of this phenomenon is the picture at left of a gas station in New Jersey (photo found here), just one of dozens like it across the…
Another Halloween, but slapped hard by nature — there’s a few million US people who won’t be prowling the streets tonight seeking after treats. The trick will be to crawl through Hurricane Sandy’s rubble and stay alive. Warm and appears like it’s about to rain up here along northern California’s coastline, with the operative word…
Quiet again this morning here on California’s northern coast and the roar of the Pacific can be faintly heard in the distance — about opposite on the US eastern seaboard, where bad shit reigns (and rains). So far, not as bad as the picture at left seems to depict (via, of course, The Hollwood Reporter):…