War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Hot and getting hotter this near-noon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley — in the midst of a short but sturdy heated spell with our high forecast today to be 105 degrees, all triple digits through the weekend. Summer continues. And on a continued roll, too, is the law and T-Rump. The InterWebs this morning…
Early alert per The New York Times tonight: A grand jury in Atlanta handed up an indictment late Monday in a Georgia prosecutor’s investigation into efforts by Donald J. Trump and some of his key allies to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. But its details — including who is named in the indictment and…
Hot and humid this late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley — we’re at 101 degrees right now, most likely the high for the day as we begin a short (three/four day) triple-digit episode with cooling temps coming hopefully by Friday. And then it’s still beyond heated with temperatures in the 90s. This summer there’s…
Asshole morons, obvious First Amendment violations in the biggest journalism story of the year, and death by anxiety — nothing heavy, plus creating another example of the Streisand effect. (Illustration found here.) I read about the asshole raid by police in Marion, Kansas, on Friday, and it looked like a shitstorm about to strike as…
Sunshine and warmth this noon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — weathering the weather whether we can or not is the not-so-crazy question. Insane or not, there’s T-Rump, and America’s future ia fictional-induced reality, pork chops, or not: Ron Filipkowski at Meidas Touch this morning: In what has become the signature move of his…
As we move further and further into the 2024 campaign, the more gross the politics become — Republicans suck. And apparently, the worse of the worse is Ron DeSantis-unsanitary: ‘He did it again. Gross Ron Desantis has a disgusting habit of wiping his nose right before shaking someone’s hand or touching a part of their…
Overcast with an occasional sliver of sunshine this noon Friday here in California’s Central Valley — although still quite warm and humid, the heat is on a downward slant today, which makes summer in these parts much more bearable. Heat nowadays is in a localized perspective. In the guise of living history, the wildfires now…
In the news cycle this Thursday — along with the terrible, horrible wildfires on Hawaii’s Maui and the Big Island (53 dead at this point) — there’s further evidence the US Supreme Court is actually a den of crooks and assholes. Once again, the SCOTUS has been shown to be a pack of financial frauds-in-robes…
Warm and getting hotter this noon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — heat is now part of the game Even the T-Rump is feeling the heat, the criminal heat (The Daily Beast): Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty (again) on Thursday, this time to new charges brought against him in his classified documents…
A pleasant, not-bad late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — we’re starting a cool-down period for the next few days, dropping into maybe the high 80s tomorrow. Weather can be nice, but the old restaurant success adage comes to mind: Location, location, location. And for the right-wing MAGA crowd, the location is actually violence…
