War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
On this day after here in California, it’s back off the recall and to the business of wildfires, which are made worse by climate change, which seems to be in the early stages of being uncontrollable. And today in the Central Valley we’ve had some brown in the air probably off a big fire about…
Cool and comfortable this mid-day Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley, a nice feeling, too, of having the Gavin Newsom recall fiasco go down in flames, and Republicans receiving a ballot-box knuckle sandwich — although a smashing victory behind us, the state of the state ahead is still in a lurch trend. Indications are we’re…
Gavin Newsom remains governor — from FiveThirtyEight less than two hours after the polls closed: After all that hubbub, it was over relatively quickly: Our colleagues at the ABC News Decision Desk projected that the recall would fail at 11:37 p.m. Eastern, barely half an hour after polls closed. As of this writing, 67-percent of…
Big-bang item in the news cycle this Tuesday morning — beyond the Gavin Newsom recall election out here in California (hope to do a post on it later today) — is another horrible inside look at the clusterfuck of T-Rump’s final days in the White House. He’s a known mental menace for America — all…
In surfing the InterWebs this afternoon, there was a high shitload of news going on, but notice of Adam Kinziner’s words in an interview struck a match — pretty-much coming from a Republican for Republicans about Republicans: Kinzinger pretty-much hit the reality bell at CBS News — after some chit-chat with Margaret Brennan on Afghanistan,…
Congenial and clear sunshine this mid-day Monday here in California’s Central Valley, with both the actual physical meteorology and the political weather expected to heat up as time moves through the day — tomorrow the state once again is strapped into a governor-recall election with dire consequences if it succeeds. The whole shebang is wingnuttery…
Just to escape the doomscrolling for a while and center a post this late-afternoon Sunday on a ‘shine‘ in music and in words, we try to visit a brightness from inside with all the darkness prevailing on the outside. What the fuck is that shit? One of my favorite songs of all time — and…
Meanwhile, back to the nowadays — I somehow missed this shit from last week, an episode of how the certifiable are wrecking decent, empathetic society: Down yonder in Rutherford County Tennessee, the deadly ignorance of common sense and historical reality was on full, nasty display when high school student, Grady Knox, gave a pro-mask comment…
Cool and way-comfortable this mid-day Saturday in California’s Central Valley after a week of triple-digit temperatures and real-heavy air — a day of national remembrance of horrific airliner attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, along with Flight 93 ending up in a Pennsylvania field. A way-historic day, maybe right up there with…
(Illustration: ‘MQ-9 Reaper,’ digital artwork by Tommy Anderson, and found here). Oddly and horribly ironic on the eve of one of America’s near-sacred, modern anniversaries, a report today the military drone strike last month in Kabul as mass evacuations were taking place was actually another fatal, deadly fuck-up in a 20-year-history of such fuck-ups, capping…
