War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Raining and warm this Thursday morning along California’s northern coast — water and heat is the jeux de position of living on this spring-loaded, explosive planet right now. We’re in some pitiful dire straights, but laughing all the way to the end. And I’ve been living on the fault line for years: Men going thin on…
Fog-drizzle this Tuesday morning up here along California’s north coast, but the cloud layer looks pretty thin as the fingernail-looking moon is barely shrouded in mist, giving the air a mellow-dramatic appearance. Word play is today’s bullshit subject. In the state of the news this morning, there’s still the wild and crazy Korean peninsula, Caroline…
New life on the InterWebs this morning — yesterday I got a new PC, and hopefully this will put an end to a shitload of stress, at least for awhile. Three laptops in three months — one was stolen, the second went shit-faced crazy, and upwardly optimistically, third time’s the charm. The new machine is…
Nearly clear skies this early Friday, though, more rain is expected for us up here along California’s north coast, and it’s a bit chilly outside, too. One anniversary yesterday was nearly forgotten by most of the media — even I forgot it and it has more meaning for me beyond a big, huge scare: The…
Crystal clear and a bit chilly this wee-early Monday, with the moon hanging like a white orb out over the Pacific. We’re forecast for some rain later today along California’s north coast, but we’ll just have to wait and see — weather here is always of the moment. Parsing through the news this morning, there’s…
Hello from the past. I’ve been involuntarily offline since Thursday — this laptop is a most-baffling mystery to me. Regular readers might recall my near-new laptop (and another functioning old one) were stolen in January, and I went out and found this used two-year-old Dell, which began to have problems, too. The Start Up program…
Reportedly, at a little after 4 AMÂ out here on California’s north coast, the sun will cross directly over the Earth’s equator during a moment known as the vernal equinox when both day and night are about equal, or spring has sprung. The change of the seasons, however, seems to remain the same. War bones are…
(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…
Here we are again — Friday! High overcast this morning on California’s north coast and in getting ready for the weekend the weather for me doesn’t really play a part. The weekend is for catching up on sleep. The news cycle remains the same — shit here, shit there. And I can’t wrap anything of…
Overcast and quiet this early Wednesday morning here on California’s north coast — either low clouds or high fog, I can’t tell the difference only that there’s no stars in sight. And this the middle of the fabled work-week and a lot of garbage has piled up by now. The first two days is for…