War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Prior to the mega-heat ahead, the overpowering news item this Sunday morning is Richard Branson-influenced mini-space flight with the look and feel of maybe the early Apollo events, or perhaps the first few shuttle flights (which apparentlyy got ho-hum after awhile) — a certain excitrment, but a big difference before was national, governemnt-funded projects, today…
Still comfortable outside this mid-morning Saturday here in Californnia’s Central Valley — heat-shit is expected in minutes as we’re forecast for a high of 111-degrees as summer continues unrelenting in its grip on life. Right now with the AC off, I’ve the front door open, back sliding-door open, creating a gentle, near-cool cross-brreze, which will…
Good afternoon. Warmer-than-warm this Friday — started this post originally for yesterday afternoon, but got sidesteped by an earthquake, nothing heavy. After the excitement, the settling-down and figuring-out what to do, I guickly banged out a post about the experience, plus California and earthquakes, in near-real-time, thus, didn’t have the fortitude or drive to get…
(UPDATE): My earthquake experience yesterday was/is a big deal. There’s a number of news stories about the event, but this video is prime evidence: (More UPDATE Below) Earthquake! Along with drought and heat there’s always earthquakes to break the monotony. A few minutes ago, a pretty-heavy shake I could feel, and it lasted a good…
Nice and still somewhat-cool this mid-morning Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, though, enjoyable right now, we’re in for some hot-spanking weather later today, and for days into the climate-changing future. Beyond weather and our physical-surrounding environment, we take a quick glance at the shitty mood of politics in America nowadays and how our current…
Another post of weather and climate, brought-on this time by forecasts for my little bit of ground here in California’s Central Valley to undergo maybe a ‘sun’s anvil‘ facsimile of mega-hot days, and, shit-on-a-stick, will aparently start tomorrow. Triple-digit temperatures are charted upward starting Thursday (104-degrees), Friday and Saturday (110), to Sunday apex of 113-degrees,…
Today, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter celebrate 75 years of marriage, way-long for any couple, but the longest for presidential twosomes — now well-ahead of the number-two pair, HW and Barbara Bush (73 years 111 days) and despite both being close to 100 seemed to keep-on, keeping on. Jimmy Carter was not one of our better…
Despite a wide range of events/subjects playing out on this federal-holiday Monday afternoon, one item related to climate change caught my eye during InterWeb surfing — ‘doom-scrolling‘ called by some — and is within context of how our warming environment will eventually create an uninhabitable setting near-immediately for most living things, incuding humans. Invoke a…
Weather and climate continue to be a major news items — today it’s Storm Surge Watches for SW Florida off the approaching Tropical Storm Elsa, weather wise — and reports how a changing, warming climate is freaking out the weather. Difference between weather and climate? Easy — according to the NOAA: ‘Think about it this…
Calamitous karma this morning for the T-Rump’s former right-hand idiot, Jason Miller, as his new start-up, GETTR, a supposedly social media platform, was hacked for a little while, taking emphasis away from the porn images of cartoon characters that have flooded the site, described as ‘a lot like Twitter, except with worse functionality and more…
