War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Broken-overcast this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, with sunshine playing a more aggressive part in our morning — hope is for more brightness this afternoon. Yesterday was about the same, too, but little sunshine arrived later. According to the NWS, there were more than 500 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes on Monday across the interior of…
Overcast with some occasional thin-ass sunshine this Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast, and another mundane summer-weather episode for us. Not so last weekend down southern-California way — Science writer Bob Henson at WunderBlog this morning: Amazingly, the past weekend produced more rain in San Diego than the previous 100 Julys combined (1915–2014). This was also…
Fog-banked again this Monday morning on California’s north coast, breaking a four-day trend of early-in-the-morning sunshine and a return to the gloomy gray of summer. This afternoon, however, will most-likely be gorgeous — warm, clear and with a nice sea breeze. If life allows… In this current era of weird, of bloody killings and terrible…
Lock ’em, and load ’em! Or whatever. Now nearly a month since the South Carolina church massacre, and seemingly a dry-spell of mass-gun-killings — yet not. Weird shit this mass killing narrative, and today the beat goes on: Four Marines were killed at two military offices in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with the gunman being shot dead.…
Angela Merkel and the coldness of the touch. Via Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle: Nearly a minute passed until Merkel saw that Reem was crying and approached her saying: “You did that very well,” while stroking her hair and right shoulder. The discussion host then intervened, telling Merkel that it was not a case of…
Fog-damp and gray this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, another heavy marine layer hamming-up the environment — although yesterday morning looked like right now, the afternoon turned out pretty sweet, with bright sunshine and a gentle breeze. Maybe more of the same today? Despite our pleasant conditions here, severe weather the norm for middle…
Sunshine peeks through the clouds this Monday morning, breaking the depressing fog-laced gloom of the last few weeks — yesterday’s sunrise actually had some shine to it, and Sunday afternoon was the best little weather spell in a while. Although the sunshine is intermittent, it’s way-better that the gloom of a massive marine layer wallowing…
A thick, gloomy marine fog holds gray-hostage our environment this Friday afternoon on California’s north coast — clouds to the east appear heavy with rain, but apparently it just looks that way — just heavy layers of dry. Dry is the subject of climate change in California, i.e., a notorious drought and our only habitat…
Thick, gray-overcast this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, and a damp feeling in the air, too. The NWS is forecasting some ‘heavy rain‘ eastward over in Trinity County today, complimented with a flash-flood watch — even here in the shoreline, between 20-to-60-percent chance of some ‘isolated‘ thunderstorms. (Contrast between WunderBlog and the NWS). Right now,…
In the wake of pyrotechnic Fourth of July celebrations this past weekend and the noted ‘exceptional’ peoples back-slapping we all seem to do on this particular holiday, there also should be a pause for reality. And real reality, not history figured full of ‘truthiness‘ and fitful fantasy. Time allowed the creation of a historical atmosphere…
