War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Sunshine and breezy warm this early-evening Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — some light drizzle this morning, then a nice, easy day followed. We are definitely easing into autumn. Beyond the news of nowadays (shitty as it is), there’s a gem of an item from long, long ago — the assassination of JFK and…
Today 57 years ago: (Illustration found here). Quickly-escalating moments in media time: Just about everyone who was alive then knows where they were when they heard the news. How they came to hear — decades before the Internet stitched up the world so that news moves at the speed of light — is itself a…
Crystal-clear again this afternoon on California’s north coast — and way-warm! A unbelievable 70.3 degrees right now with just a hint of a breeze. A kind of unusual day for up here, due mainly to the absence of wind, as the high earlier I guess hit 72. Tropical almost for the Lost Coast. And not…
Clear and cold again this Friday morning on California’s north coast as we prepare for the weekend — temperature right now is just a tad above freezing. Outlook for the next few days appears the same, nothing new. And today, of course, is the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination in Dallas. Fifty is one…
Cold and overcast this Wednesday afternoon — the north coast of California gray with an occasional dull-sparkle of sunshine. Not too-bad a day, though. News-wise, a pretty mundane day, at least on the crisis side — not in perpetual nightmare that’s Iraq nowadays, however, as at least 66 people were killed across Baghdad and the country.…
Cold and clear this Sunday on California’s north coast, and we continue careening our way toward the holidays, whether we like it or not. Nature’s way, no big deal. Supposedly, us baby boomers credit the assassination of JFK as the milestone, the defining moment for our petulant lives, but in reality, and in an actual,…
Sunday morning coming down, and all around as the news cycle closes the weekend off from reality. Up here along California’s northern coast, the weather is overcast, but still a bit warmer than last week and there’s a forecast for some rain later — like a lot of other predictable shit, we’ll just have to…
Highlights the desperate plight of news gathering: Editor&Publisher, an authentic cornerstone of journalism will cease publication at the end of this year. The announcement was made Thursday on its online site. An interview today with Greg Mitchell, E&P‘s editor since 2002, on the demise of the newspaper-trade industry/journo-icon can be found at Columbia Journalism Review.…
Nearly 50 years have passed since that fateful day in Dallas when JFK was assassinated, and now some new insights have surfaced into those few precious moments in the abrupt transition of presidential power — and it ain’t macho. In a new book on the November 1963 event, The Kennedy Assassination–24 Hours After: Lyndon B.…
