War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Well, here we are — Friday! And it’s the normal ground fog and chilly this morning on California’s north coast and a way-early time right now, but it will be later soon. Oh, no — I feel the vapors coming: “Rolling Stone is a music magazine, not the Taliban Times,” so says one nit-twit on…
High overcast with a slightly-chilled wind this way-early Monday as we carrom into another new work week, leaving behind the rat-tailed dump of private-first-class droppings — or what’s now called, ‘Boundless Informant.’ Apparently, there’s no bottom to the data suck. On Saturday, the UK’s Guardian revealed the NSA whistleblower as American citizen Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old…
Bright and sunny this Sunday afternoon on California’s north coast — big weekend in Arcata, a little town just south of us and home to Humboldt State University, with what’s called the Kinetic Grand Championship, a crazy two-day event of homemade/man-propelled motion machines. See some of the participants at Lost Coast Outpost. As a steadfast…
Clear with a slightly-chilled breeze this Wednesday morning on California’s north coast as the work week grinds onward, and maybe downward. In a somewhat good news, authorities in Oklahoma have dropped the number of deaths from Monday’s tornado to only 24 (though, seven were children) and a terrible clean-up begins. In the midst of all…
What a difference 24-hours can make — or a week, or nearly seven years to the day. Politics in the US is currently a total bitch, filled with confusion, back-stabbing and hate. Yet with all this crude, ignorant bluster, there’s very little true-truth to power — no deep-throated, gut-induced ironic-sarcasm at the horrible shape of…
High overcast and a bit on the warm side this way-early Thursday on California’s north coast, though, rain has its smell in the air. I hope not — my Jeep is in the shop and I’m on foot for this morning. The news cycle continues: Repugnant story of the day — life has to be…
Rainy and cold this early Tuesday on California’s north coast and we’re forecast to get thunderstorms later today — the golden days appear to be over for awhile. Weather, however, never sits still. Seemingly, time is of the essence this morning as the chore of surfing the news has left me kind of empty to…
Even now after nearly half-a-century, one Vietnam vet still works to get a grip: Wright died in 1968 when he stepped on a land mine, Atwood said, and Wright’s mother always blamed him for her son’s death. He’s never been able to bring himself to visit his friend’s grave, he said. On Saturday he found…
Dishonest with a smile. (Illustration found here). From the Washington Post yesterday afternoon: Paul Ryan visited a soup kitchen here Saturday on his way to the airport, but by the time the GOP vice presidential nominee and his family had arrived shortly before noon, the grits, sausage and doughnuts had been served, the hall was…
Another beautiful early morning here on California’s northern coast, still again with bright stars twinkling in the sky — after weeks and seemingly months of fog, these last few days have been neat. And warm, too, causing me sometimes to forget were I’m at. Beyond this euphoric weather, the big story this morning is what…