War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Although we’re more than a week into Spring (March 20), the weather today here In Merced, located strategically about middle of California’s Central Valley, feels more like summer than any kind of flowering coolness of Easter season. Walking Leroy this morning, I had to remove my hoodie/sweatjacket for the first time this year, and proceed…
Reality seen with your own eyes, except for the T-Rump and every fucking Republican sucking air right now — on Fox News Thursday night, T-Rump described in a seemingly fever dream the Jan. 6 US Capitol building insurrection/riot: “It was zero threat, right from the start, it was zero threat. Look, they went in, they…
Some dangling participles today from Joe Biden’s first presidential press conference with an emphasis on reporters not really doing their jobs (I touched on this yesterday) and seeking out shit not needed to be sought (via a review of the event at CJR): Dan Froomkin, the journalism critic, said that the presser created the impression that as…
Sad, angry shit this morning off the ugly vandalism of America yesterday in Georgia, which in itself is only representive of Republican endeavors nationwide — why the living-shit do we have to turn to The Onion for a reality check? (h/t tweet Daily Kos): In a rational-based society this shit wouldn’t exist, but yet a…
Questions from White House reporters at Joe Biden’s first press conference today were a bit one-sided and seem to carry a right-handed approach to political shit, with some observers calling for them to do a better job. The reporter’s reality is to the people: Journalists are supposed to work really for the truth and present…
Our nation can rest easier now that Joe Biden held his first press conference this afternoon, and from all indications he aced his initial session with reporters — one outstanding item missing, however, was inquiries on the pandemic, which most-likely suggested the fight against it was going smoothly (as much as anything that’s killed a…
America appears on the democracy precipice right now, despite gains made the last months — Joe Biden elected president, the COVID relief bill passed, among other benefits — and how Congress reacts in the near future, especially on voting rights, will tell the tale of whether we stand or fall. However, the hard place of…
(Illustration: ‘Bang,’ blotted ink drawing by Andy Warhol (about 1960), and found here). Despite two terrible mass shooting the last week — 18 killed in total — and a seemingly dearth of such events during this pandemic-influenced era, doesn’t mean people aren’t dying from gun shots, the exact opposite. Americans are shooting each other at…
(Illustration found here). Another mass murder event — 10 killed yesterday at a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store — three days ago, one killed, five injured at a Philadelphia house party, and last week, of course, eight killed at a couple of spas in Atlanta, as we return to ‘normal‘ after a lockdown pandemic year. ‘Normal‘…
Here we go again in an attempt to get out from underneath the shit-weight of the politics and pandemic mixed-tape of horror. This is the fifth in our ‘Destination‘ series (last one here) and includes music from the past drummed-up mostly in acoustic tones flushed with the nowadays. And once again a find in my…
