War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Just turning dark this Sunday evening here in California’s Central Valley, a beautiful, sunshine-splashed day with some chilly temperatures earlier, but got warm in the dazzling sun. And news just to keep the future bright, a new variant discovered off the old variants — via Bloomberg News from yesterday: A strain of Covid-19 that combines…
Foggy and damp this Saturday evening here in California’s Central Valley — weathering the weather has always been a part of life’s story, except nowadays there’s an endgame included and it’s shitty. And climate-changing that weather is a heavy gas: Not a happy milestone, in fact this is serious, heavy shit — literally — via…
Life is getting a bit on the mental-breakdown side of the fencepost: Details via Yahoo News this morning: An overwhelming majority of Americans believe the U.S. is in the grips of a full-blown mental health crisis, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll. Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought a rise…
Darkness already this early-evening Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley — despite it being night-like outside, darkness has been known to lie. Even when it’s obvious: A crucial point from Wendy Weiser, vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice (NPR this afternoon): ‘I am worried that if we don’t pass federal legislation,…
(Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Guernica,’ and found here). Another gloomy-gus democracy on the brink poll — via NPR this morning, though, the results indicate the lying, rot-backside to the destruction of the American experience: A new NPR/Ipsos poll finds that 64-percent of Americans believe U.S. democracy is “in crisis and at risk of failing.” That sentiment is…
As a reminder — like you need one — that Republicans spread false shit about COVID on a constant basis comes from this latest story of GQP imbecilic nonsense they personally themselves don’t believe. In the last two days of 2021, assholes on the House Judiciary Committee revealed their heartless, mean-spirited attitude of disaster —…
Here this mid-day Saturday in California’s Central Valley, more new-year wise-acre shit, and some news on T-Rump’s emotional part in the DC coup-attempt now nearly a year ago — first smile (h/t Just An Earthbound Misfit): Maybe a New Year day-one surprise and maybe we can ease up on the screaming — good news maybe…
Here we come to the end of another whole, full-fledged year, and seemingly really nothing to show for it, or even have a semblance of uplift for 2022, which from all indications might just turn out to be worse than the last two combined — never in my life have I so hope and want…
(Illustration: ‘Redhope‘, street art by Shepard Fairey, and found here). Just paying attention to what’s going on around you nowadays is a way-depressing and emotional bowel-suck of an endeavor, and if you’re a ‘news nut‘ (vs a ‘news addict,’ which is really just more druggie-like than the perceived institutional-grade crazy) doomscrolling through the activities of…
Drizzling still this early-evening Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley, after a day full of deep-overcast skies and continuous threat of hard rain — reportedly, maybe some sunshine tomorrow before another storm slated for next week, and the new year. In the air, climate disaster seems close at hand. And art mirrors reality — listen…
