War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration found here). Tomorrow, of course, is turkey day — one of US peoples’ more obtuse holidays where actual thanksgiving gives way to stuffing the face with food. And like most of the other so-called holidays, it’s authentic as a 3-dollar bill. One — watch out for the shit in cans, and the increase of…
Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep, the pump price still at $3.99 a gallon for regular — a fixture now at the local Union 76. Although those numbers have not moved here on California’s northern coast for at least two months, the overall gas/oil theater appears on some kind…
Another nasty package on the highly-movable climate-change-train as a new study (once again) signals earth is moving beyond heat — revealing the crazy Russian heat wave last year most-likely wouldn’t have happened without global warming. Abstract from the research posted at PNAS: We estimate that climatic warming has increased the number of new global-mean temperature…
The Gulf of Mexico: Seen from space, seemingly shimmering in shades of 3-D-green-and-blue, looking so fertile, sprawled open like a priceless pearl floating carefree in that proverbial oyster bed of life — a most-wondrous sight of nature. (Illustration found here). Yeah, well, not so fast there Juan Ponce de Leon: One might want to place…
As we thunder through 2011, many of the things we take for granted are slowly floating past us like all that debris washing through the homes and towns in Vermont — a game-changing time is coming quick. And another milestone: For the first time since the American invasion of Iraq, an entire month has passed…
Early Wednesday, a sharp 4.5 aftershock hit about five miles from the epicenter of Tuesday’s earthquake, which rattled the whole US eastern seaboard and has put people on edge. Via Twitter this morning: visionAri_style 1:30am: #aftershock !!!! I felt that !!!! I knew I wasn’t trippen! But I am trippen bc I packed a bag…
Turn about is fair play, huh? Indeed, as the US East Coast experienced a dose of western-style living yesterday with a 5.8-magnitude earthquake, which struck about 40 miles northwest of Richmond, Virginia, and was felt from Georgia to northern New England. Although no serious injuries or heavy-duty structural damage was reported — the Washington Monument…
Even as quick downloads of extreme weather have become the ‘new normal‘ in the US — baseball-size hail yesterday in Nebraska, and drought conditions have spread to 12 percent of the country — and even as more reports come about global warming, any kind of fix is near-about impossible. A major problem is the blow-hole…
Greased-nuts-and-bolts and impractical machinery — reality’s pixilated dream of an era coming quickly to an end. Peak oil appears to the naked eye less chaotic than climate change — a not-so-violent soft and gradual approach to cheap energy’s end without the visual horror and/or living through floods, tornadoes, fires, famine and drought as produced by…
Even as this debt ceiling fiasco flails about, slapping everybody in the face with its immature, self-centered, politically-charged dramatics, the planet earth itself is rapidly reaching its own ceiling, which once breached will make every-fuckin’-body forget all that fiscal brouhaha. Despite climate change being way-more dangerous than a bull-on-crack in a china shop, way-more perilous…
