War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Breezy and comfortable outside this early-evening Monday here in California’s Central Valley — the wind is a way-big factor in keeping heat down to manageable levels, though, tomorrow we’re supposedly starting another episode of higher temperatures until at least the weekend. Just it’s been hotter than normal earlier than normal, nothing heavy. Also nothing heavy…
Now a day after the televised first hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection/riot, all the data is in and it appears the session last night was a media success. All the lines were marked and all boxes checked — T-Rump is guilty as shit of sedition, and a goodly chunk…
(Illustration: ‘John Dean nears the end of reading his 245-page prepared statement before the Senate Watergate Committee in Washington, D.C., on June 25, 1973′ — image found here). In context of this month’s 50th anniversary of the clumsily-botched burglary at DC’s Watergate — June 17, 1972 — I came across this interview this afternoon at…
(Illustration: Art by Matteo Farinella, written by Jeremy Deaton, and found here). Once again putting aside guns and war and nasty Republican asshole politics this early-evening Saturday here in California’s Central Valley, maybe focus for a moment on probably the biggest-by-far threat to humanity, coming faster, too, eventually to engulf everybody’s neighborhood — climate change.…
A gleeful note in the news cycle this Friday morning — maybe the start of something good: Details/background via The Washington Post a short while ago: Navarro, who was a trade adviser to President Donald Trump, also revealed he received a grand jury subpoena as part of a related Justice Department probe in a lawsuit…
(Illustration: Various galaxies of the Virgo Supercluster, grouped and clustered together, and found here). Beyond mass shootings and war crimes, how about a little way-out space shit this Monday morning to loose the bonds of everyday terror, maybe expand our horizons past our seemingly dying planet and a coming fracture in space and time to…
Overcast and breezy but still hot as heck this early-evening Thursday here in California’s Central Valley. Away from the InterWebs for a good while today, I didn’t catch the initial reports of a law enforcement clusterfuck in the handling of the massacre Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tx, and then during my afternoon…
Boiling-hot outside this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — reportedly 108-degrees just before 6 p.m. PDT — and it’s still days away from official summer. Shit-already-on-a-overheated-stick. In the wake of the massacre yesterday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the normal shit-stuffing by Republicans has grown in size and scope. Really shitty…
End of another weekend, and close to the end of a month, plus, close to the heat of summer — not so bad outside this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley, warmish, but breezy enough to be comfortable. Next week, though, a rolling-thunder heatwave is expected, maybe triple-digit temperatures by Tuesday/Wednesday. In rebellion against…
(Illustration out front: ‘The Three Amigos,’ and found here). An idiot remains an idiot despite the whitewash, and even with the incense burning tattering holes in history books. When this blog first appeared 15 years ago last month — April 22, 2007 — (I forgot the anniversary until a few days later, but the past…
