War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Crystal-clear skies and a fingernail-moon brighten this way-too-early Friday on California’s north coast as we continue our our warmest summer ever: The official thermometer read 74 degrees, topping the previous best of 72 recorded in 1991. Sweltering! Weather isn’t scary enough? Just wait for the pants-shitting fright to dawn. (Illustration found here). Beyond the now-widening debacle…
An on-going creepy story not getting much airplay nowadays (via BBC News): “The quantities of water they are dealing with are absolutely gigantic,” said Mycle Schneider, who has consulted widely for a variety of organisations and countries on nuclear issues. “What is the worse is the water leakage everywhere else – not just from the…
Rain lightly-spattered windows this early Sunday on California’s north coast, but now a couple hours later, outside is just foggy and wet — an observation made from the confines of my back patio, of course. According to local weather forecasts, we’ve still got about a 30 percent chance of more rain today, then back next…
I hadn’t been aware of this particular day — today: Earth Overshoot Day 2013. Either I wasn’t paying attention, or missed it, or something. An odd celebratory event without much celebrating — well, actually none at all. Another prick-brick in the wall. (Illustration found here). According to Global Footprint Network: Earth Overshoot Day is the…
A bit on the chilly side this early Tuesday along California’s north coast, a change from what’s been happening weather-wise around here the last few weeks. Although the temperatures expected to be back in the low-70s later today, the air feels cooler — maybe it’s just me. (Illustration found here). And maybe it’s just me,…
(Illustration: Wolfgang Bloch‘s The Colors of Coincidence found here). An oddity this Saturday morning on California’s north coast: Clear skies and bright, early sunshine. The norm for dawn is deep fog, like yesterday when the air was wet as rain, yet not. Weather nowadays can be really deceptive, and can be made fuel — oddly,…
Life in the nowadays — dry-heat finds a spark. Especially west of the Mississippi, including even up here along California’s north coast — although living right on the Pacific Ocean with sea breezes does keep temperatures down and the air fairly-clean of a smoke scent. Last week, however, more than a dozen fires in the…
Here we are mid-week again, with fog and gloom this early Wednesday, but at least we’re on the gravitational pull to the weekend. Hard-hitting environmental report came out yesterday, but if anyone has been keeping up with the situation the last few years, there’s really nothing new. The big question (though, with no answer right…
Overcast and a bit on the chilly side this way-too-early Tuesday — a normal sort of morning for summertime up here along California’s north coast. There’s not much distinction between seasons — a day like today could be in January instead of July, except for the rain. One longtime resident told me last week she’d…
As I get older, the writing process appears to be short-winded, and based on mood — creative juices just don’t percolate onto the page, or as in this modern era, onto the laptop screen as easily, and, nowhere the quantity as years gone bye-bye. Emotion seems to rule the brain, creating a hopefully short-lived writer’s…
