War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Last week, a federal judge in New Orleans ruled the 2010 Deepwater Horizon debacle was the result of BP’s “willful misconduct” and “gross negligence.” And can we hear a…’Duh!’ Yet fit to be tied with their panties in a bind. Via Grist: On Wednesday night — just hours before the court’s ruling — Geoff Morrell, the…
Almost a full-sun sunrise this Wednesday morning on California’s north coast, but at the last second, ground fog with an overcast cloud layer muted the air into a thin gray haze. Shucks! I can’t remember the last time we had a sunny sunrise — nevertheless, in a couple of hours or so, sunshine and warm…
Fog-bound this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, but just a wee-bit to the east are huge chunks of deep-growth forests, dry and waterless, and in some places, on fire. A moist shoreline and a tinderbox interior. Countrywide, a variety of weather shit, though, tornadoes twisted across diverse locales — a four-minute one early yesterday…
A huge, banner head at the top of HuffPost this afternoon quickly snapped at me — ‘Here…Human-caused…Already dangerous…Likely irreversible,’ and with that last word knew it had something to do with climate change. And sure enough, the latest draft of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as been leaked to the media, and like…
Fog and chilly here on California’s north coast this early Tuesday as the world stumbles on through the work week. Typical summer fare for the area, usually sunshine and a brisk afternoon wind to follow the fog. Yesterday, though, the script didn’t alter itself and stayed overcast and cool all day — weather weird. And…
A way-ordinary, routine-acting morning-fog environment for here on California’s north coast, but just three/four hours south, Sunday came early with a bang for the graveyard shift: Erica Gregory, who was brewing coffee while working by herself at the 24-hour Shell gas station on Highway 29 in Vallejo, said items started to fly off the shelves…
Foggy and quiet this early Saturday on California’s north coast and the water war continues — it’s a conflict between us drinking H2O and not. The well-known and infamous drought has plagued the Western US for years, and in California the problem is going from bad to worse, to even worse still — and no…
Overcast with a bit of ground fog this early Thursday morning on California’s north coast and the air is still and quiet — nice but rare nowadays. The horror in Missouri spills blood everywhere. One starts to wonder if the real lawless fright is coming from cops instead of gangsters and crackheads — unless you’re…
Cool and quiet this early Tuesday on California’s north coast and the silence feels good on the brainwaves — nothing like a nice time before daylight. In the midst of bad shit all over, there seems to be some natural fireworks coming from underground. In the European theater of dramatic effects, everybody’s paying attention to…
Light fog and cool this early Monday on California’s north coast as we start another work week. And from this vantage point, Friday looks years away. Today is special — for me. This is my last full-work week as I’m retiring, and the liquor store I manage will have to continue running without me. My…
