War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Crystal-clear skies and a bit on the chilly side this fourth of July Thursday on California’s north coast — the sound of the Pacific Ocean a quiet moan from the west. Life continues whether we want it to or not. Despite other big shit happening — Egypt’s on another late-spring uprising, the Arizona wildfire that…
A bit of lingering fog this early Monday on California’s north coast with most-beautiful weather continuing on into a new work week. However, it’s pretty-much shitsville everywhere else. Nineteen firefighters were killed yesterday in Arizona — an entire ‘elite’ fire crew — and the western US as a whole has become no more than a furnace…
Overcast and a bit warm this Friday morning as we head into another weekend — time flies when given time. Today, of course, is the first day of summer — the Summer Solstice — and is supposedly the longest day of the year. In fact, according to the brainiacs, this day is so long it…
Seemingly clear skies this Thursday morning on California’s north coast, but I can’t see any twinkling stars — must be a way-high overcast way-up yonder somewhere. Well, this is Humboldt County, we’re higher than the rest of the country combined, to start with, and to finish. America as a concept is pretty-much over — this…
Overcast and warm this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — we had some rain yesterday and last night, but not enough to really feel the wet. Although the banging was pretty strong when I dozed off to sleep, this morning there was just fog and some dripping heard pinging around the back patio. We…
Two poetic courtroom-comments yesterday encapsulate the nowadays: The defense attorney for a woman charged with severing the penis of her estranged husband said she “had a break from reality” the night of the attack. And the prosecution countered: “They say anger is the wind that blows out the candle of the mind.” Awoke this morning in…
High fog, or low clouds this morning with just a hint of cool as we start off Thursday here on California’s north coast — and it’s a snap in summer’s direction, too. Yesterday was the hottest yet this year, and a new record for Eureka — about 10 miles south of myself — and at…
Doc: Why do you let this cracker follow you around? Troy: He’s a good kid. Doc: He’s a wall-eyed cracker. Troy: He’s got no high school, man, he’s from a group home in Jackson — Doc: I don’t give a shit if he’s from Johannesburg. I don’t want to hear dune koon or sand nigger…
(Illustration found here). Asshole:Â 1. The anus; 2. A thoroughly contemptible, detestable person. Despite trying to overlook someone being an asshole due to some type personality disorder distracts from the point of labeling some asshole an asshole. Sometimes assholes are assholes because they enjoy it (i.e., Pawnee Councilman Jeremy Jamm). Others are assholes because they were…
(Illustration found here). Ten years along and the recipients of “shock and awe” know it as a wide-awake nightmare — from the NY Times: At the pet market, Karrar Habeeb, a 22-year-old carpenter, paused, surprised to be asked about what was surely the defining event of his youth. “I didn’t know about it,†Mr. Habeeb…