War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Cloudy with occasional rain-showers this early Thursday on California’s north coast, a preview forecast for us the next few days. An additional ugly, slightly-nauseous mug in the news recently has belonged to George Jr., who’s been floating about the airwaves hawking a book and soft-clowning for the news media. In all those interviews, never once…
Bright sunshine and a seemingly-warm breeze this early Monday here on California’s north coast, a kind of opposite to the weather across the US upper mid-west, where temperatures are “…about 20 degrees below the average high…” and nabs the title, ‘Winter Storm Astro,’ first of the season. And a first, too, a Fukushima “fingerprint” is…
Overcast and chilly this early Sunday on California’s north coast — weather here all depends on the wind. Apparently, the weather of politics, too. In the tsunami off the Tuesday quake, I spied this poll survey in the LA Times yesterday, which revealed in the current wind direction/velocity, our two US senators, Barbara Boxer and…
Bright shiny sunshine this afternoon, and a nice warm breeze, too. In the quaking and shuddering over the midterms, one item just a week or so ago seemed to pass without much notice — the US Marines handed over control (the keys) to Camp Leatherneck, the huge military installation in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, to the Afghans.…
Overcast and gloomy this early Friday on California’s north coast — drizzle again the next little while, I expect, then whatever… Paul Krugman, again hit the nail on the head this morning in his NYT column: ‘So now is a good time to remember just how wrong the new rulers of Congress have been about,…
A reddish tint in the eastern sky this Wednesday morning, maybe sailors and all Americans take warning — here on California’s north coast, most-likely overcast with late afternoon sunshine. Another day in the life… No so for the sad, dumb-ass US of A — apparently there’s a shitload of ignorant, clueless Americans out there, enough…
War-zone Saturday: “This district is what you’d probably call the southwestern United States. That was before it was destroyed by the war.” “War?” “Yes. According to history, over 100 years ago, a man named Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead.” — ‘Sleeper‘ Endless war, as perpetrated/proposed just this past week by the US…
Bright sunshine this afternoon, my little portion of California’s north coast clear and chilly. Hard words to handle: “Somewhere after the middle of this century human-caused emissions will have to come down to a net zero,” Achim Steiner, head of the U.N. Environment Programme, told Reuters. The statement a preparation for more grim news coming this…
Bright and sunny with a bit of chilled wind, here this Monday afternoon on California’s north coast. Gorgeous now but more rain expected tomorrow. Late in the day for a first post, usually way-earlier I’d have at least one piece up about something-or-another, but got involved with other stuff, then discovered I had to replace…
Due to this really, really crazy world and all the news pouring from every direction 24/7, I miss a lot of stuff otherwise buried — one for sure is the report Joni Mitchell will release a new box-set-collection of her tunes, due Nov. 17, where she boiled down 17 albums into 53 songs. In a…
