War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Soft, warm sunshine this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley, another example of a really comfortable fall season — so far. Weather-wise OK, but not so ‘comfortable‘ overall being in the nowadays — such as this afternoon. In a short interval of less than a couple of hours (an attempt at a nap) news…
Indeed Saturday night’s a good time for violence against democracy: Political consultant Trygve Olson, and senior advisor with The Lincoln Project, in an interview published last week at Salon, notes the violence abundant with T-Rump and the Republican brand: I have found that universally, autocratic actors – and Trump is one – use six tactics…
Thickly overcast with just a slight sprinkle this near-noon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, and although we got rain-hammered last night, hopefully, the most-potent downpour is gone for a while. An ‘atmospheric river’ that collided with the coast yesterday will still play out in more wetness and subsequent flooding for days to come. Water…
(Illustration: ‘Reptiles,’ by MC Escher, 1943 (Lithograph), and found here). One of the more-ugly aspects of GaetzGate for me is that the asshole represents the area where I grew up — the Florida panhande. I spent most of my youth there, from third grade through high school graduation (attending Choctawhatchee High School in Fort Walton…
Warm-bordering-on-hot this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, with deep, yellow sunshine adding to the sense of heat — summer’s coming way-soon and it’s going to be long and hard. In the news, Republicans top the cycle again for being assholes and nasty-ass fuckers, emitting foul shit from leaning into The Big Lie to…
Beyond the George Floyd trial (actually, real title the Derek Chauvin murder trial), the biggest item to hit the news cycle today is the nasty shit on that nasty shit Matt Gaetz Gaetz has been an asshole a way-long time, and since he’s such a T-Rump bootlicker/ass-wipe, this is not really a surprise, though, it…
