War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Rain again this near-noon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — a wet story of horror: (Illustration by Australian political cartoonist Fiona Katauskas, and found this morning at the Guardian.) In this terrible, dangerous, and surreal age of the T-Rump, there’s so much shit flooding the zone that a lot of serious particulars are swallowed…
Clear and quiet this early-evening Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley. (Illustration: “Collapse Of Perfection,” oil on canvas, by Peter Kim, and found here.) Shit’s getting deeper by the day. I’ve found it hard to post nowadays with such pessimistic ugliness polluting the news cycle nearly at a 24-hour-a-day clip. Nothing but horrifying shit-bending scope…
Clear and getting hotter this mid-day Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — we’re in the high 80s right now on our way to 102 later this afternoon. A ‘cool‘ space is forecast to start tomorrow and last maybe a week or so with high temperatures expected in the mid-90s (WTF! 90 degrees considered ‘cool‘).…
A wet-gray and cold late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley. Although kind of nasty outside, it’s nothing compared to a giant chunk of the US right now, from super-freezing snow storms in the midwest to tornadoes in the south — the weather’s shitty all over. Americans seem aware that despite the winter conditions, climate…
Bright sunshine coupled with temperatures in the high 90s this late-afternoon Friday here in California’s Central Valley as we’re apparently experiencing a seemingly out-of-the-blue shot of summer for the next couple of days — after a mild early autumn the last few weeks we were jolted back into hot-heat yesterday (temps in the low 90s)…
Another bright end to another weekend this early-evening Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — we’ve been fortunate beyond belief the past few weeks as storms struck right, left and all across the globe. Still, we are so far in a quiet, warm autumn. Weather is hugely location-based — at least for the time being.…
Hot-as-shit just past noon-time Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — although we could be just above 100 -degrees for our high today, we’re in tune with a way-goodly portion of our earth right now. We’re looking at 110-plus for the weekend. Even across this country, heat is mixing the weather really badly. America (per…
Rainy, dark and ominous, and cold as shit this near-noon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — the big winter storm we expected yesterday came crashing down on us during the night, with heavy winds and a lot of rain. Blustery day and week ahead no doubt now. Our forecast ringing true: Big burst of…
A tight, chilly wind near sunset in California’s Central Valley this Sunday, drawing close to the end of another gorgeous day in a week-long respite from those ghastly atmospheric rivers. It’s been a time of drying out for our state and of counting the loss and the dry of a ‘whiplash weather’ pattern set to…
Overcast and thick looking this early-evening Monday here in California’s Central Valley — no rain right now, but we’ve had a shitload of the stuff the last several days to do a while, During a heavy-wet storm earlier in the afternoon, there was included some thunder and lightning — an unusual occurrence for us. Not…
