War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration: ‘Mosiak II,’ by MC Escher, and found here). I caught the headlines Friday, and maybe a quick scan of a couple of articles, but nothing in-depth and no post (although I generally post major shit warnings on climate), but I kind of viewed it as just another accelerating number of environmental warnings — ‘red…
(Illustration: Ancient Carved Stone Camel in Saudi Arabia, and found here). History is fascinating — today, right now, a Friday afternoon, is history in real-time. Yesterday is usually easily remembered (I’m about to turn 73), but how about shit from 20 years ago (though last week I did a first-person, two-decades back post, found the…
Newsflashes slow this mid-day Friday; maybe more substantial shit will fall this afternoon with a news dump flurry to beat the weekend and the normal deadness of media noise. Here, to fill the gap is a trio of tweets, each with a function — first, close to history (I was born in Alabama) with a…
On this day after here in California, it’s back off the recall and to the business of wildfires, which are made worse by climate change, which seems to be in the early stages of being uncontrollable. And today in the Central Valley we’ve had some brown in the air probably off a big fire about…
Warm and near-about comfortable this mid-day Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley — first day of the ‘fall season,’ a time zone which usually lasts until about Halloween, then the holiday season kicks in, amping shit up higher. In the nowadays, though, all past ‘normal’ bets are off, due to the ugly fact crazy shit’s…
Another major red-flag warning on the here-and-now-but-worse-in-the-immediate-future thingie of climate change — a call from professionals/scientists to turn the boat — yesterday a big editorial: Nutshell via HuffPost this morning: A coalition of more than 220 of the planet’s leading medical and public health journals issued an urgent rallying cry to address climate change on…
As America stews through a slew of potboiler issues, according to what citizens feel, we’re up shit creek without a paddle. In the latest Ipsos poll out today, just a quarter of respondents think the US is heading in the right direction — 59-percent perceive we’re on the ‘wrong track.’ Of course, in the break-down…
In a non-contextual free-form this Saturday morning, and amongst savage news stories, I’m slipping back some 47 years, back to 1974 — I graduated from the University of Florida that June and spent the summer (when not working the loading dock at the Sears-Roebuck store in Gainesville — my job during the last two years…
Slightly warm at a cool 88-degrees this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, and we’re still clear of smoke from our rampant wildfire war being waged up and down the state. Although there are some big ones burning up north, smoke off the Caldor Fire near Lake Tahoe, about three-and-a-half hours northeast of where…
Another boilermaker day — 109-degrees outside right now (late-afternoon Monday in California’s Central Valley) — as we spin through work-week kick-off with shit hitting the fan everywhere. Probably the most-historic event today was an end to an inspired bit of action begun a month shy 20 years ago, but quickly shit the roost, and now…
