War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Way-appropriate emotional point on this eve of the big-bang Ballot Day:: Just the gut feeling — you want to feel optimistic, you want to lean-into the wondrous polls calling for a Blue Wave, but the anguish-horror of failure — if Republicans keep the House, and Senate, or even if the midterm is a return to…
Sunshine, and Whoa! Mid-morning Saturday finds this little stretch of the northern California coast sitting at 91.1-degrees, at least according to the WunderBlog‘s local weather thingy, and for us, that’s a-boiling. Or just weird: the NWS has us along the shoreline under a rare ‘Heat Advisory‘ until 7 PM today. The weather guys also suggested…
(Illustration found here). Beyond the mournful images of Hurricane Harvey’s staggering-impact on southeast Texas, the narrative could spin into a scenario of the worse kind of nightmare. Along the coast are a way-shitload of chemical plants now underwater, or near-about, and possible explosive events that could be really, really bad. Charles P. Pierce at Esquire this…
Sunny with a chilled wind this Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast — the summer’s beat continues. This morning, a short visit from an old, longtime friend, one I hadn’t seen, or maybe not even talked to in more than two decades, and the experience was way-pleasant. Odd the years, how fast they pass, and…
Time marches forward, no matter the bullshit tossed up into the fan of life — distraction is the byword now, and there’s plenty. Even as we digest T-Rump Jr.’s asshole antics, and the Senate’s confirmation hearings this morning for Christopher A. Wray as FBI director, the real, reality continues unabated. A massive Antarctic iceberg, more…
Warm and bright the late-afternoon Friday on California’s north coast, rain expected tomorrow and Sunday, clear again by the first of next week. Early summer… Weather-wise as opposed to the DC comedy-of-errors, the climate continues to weird-out, now close to home — the US Pacific shoreline under attack (via Climate Central last Tuesday): A new study…
Weak, near-pathetic sunshine this early-evening Wednesday on California’s north coast, trying hard to break through the merging marine layer, and previewing a wet-cloudy future the next few days. According to the NWS, ‘unseasonably heavy rain‘ will spatter the region starting tonight and continuing through Monday — an out-of-season ‘Atmospheric River,’ This afternoon, however, the huge…
Fog classified as ‘Patchy Drizzle‘ this early-evening Monday on California’s north coast — a gray-chilly Memorial Day. There’d been some way-faded sunshine on occasion in the afternoon, but mostly light wetness… Tone of Memorial Day in the nowadays — (via the Washington Post) this afternoon: In Trump’s White House, aides serve a president who demands…
Overcast and gray this late-afternoon Friday on California’s north coast — no sunshine around here today. Although the NWS is calling for heavy-warmth this weekend (60s-to-lower-70s along the shoreline, 70s-to-lower-90s, inland), fog embedded clouds keeps us at the beach mostly-cool. Which be cool… Seemingly nowadays, the news cycle has become insane. And even on the notorious…
Near-cloudless skies creating a bright late-afternoon Wednesday here on California’s north coast, an environmental tonic to the ugly out yonder in the world. Out there, a flashback exemplifying the ludicrous-horror of the T-Rump — released today transcript of a telephone conversation last month between our idiot-child POTUS, and one of the most-heinous guys on earth…
