War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Journalism, or at least what figures as journalism nowadays, got front-and-center today in another dust-up between the marvelous Jen Psaki, and Fox News‘ Peter Doocy, one tone-deaf dumb-ass: Highlights via Raw Story: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki disputed Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy on Wednesday about the importance of voting rights. During a press…
In surfing the InterWebs this afternoon, scrolling across news stories on Joe Biden’s speech, COVID anti-vaxxers, Texas Demo legislators fleeing the state to keep Repubs from choking-to-death the right to vote, a new T-Rump book revealing he’s an even worse piece-of-shit/asshole then we all thought (shock!), along with numerous other headline items, I ventured onto…
A couple of whimsical, near-nonsensical items this afternoon which in the face of our current reality, should make one feel better, if just for a moment or two. Hope in the time of the virus: Despite a shitload of problems nowadays, a big chunk of Americans somehow can take the edge off the cut and…
A bit cooler than ‘normal‘ this late-morning Monday here in California’s Central Valley, though, we’re scheduled for triple-digit temperatures again today, it’s off the full-blown crazy of this past weekend. Supposedly, we’re on a downward slide from this particular ‘mega-heat-wave’ with temps set for the low 90s by Friday, but back up for Saturday and…
Still comfortable outside this mid-morning Saturday here in Californnia’s Central Valley — heat-shit is expected in minutes as we’re forecast for a high of 111-degrees as summer continues unrelenting in its grip on life. Right now with the AC off, I’ve the front door open, back sliding-door open, creating a gentle, near-cool cross-brreze, which will…
Today, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter celebrate 75 years of marriage, way-long for any couple, but the longest for presidential twosomes — now well-ahead of the number-two pair, HW and Barbara Bush (73 years 111 days) and despite both being close to 100 seemed to keep-on, keeping on. Jimmy Carter was not one of our better…
Calamitous karma this morning for the T-Rump’s former right-hand idiot, Jason Miller, as his new start-up, GETTR, a supposedly social media platform, was hacked for a little while, taking emphasis away from the porn images of cartoon characters that have flooded the site, described as ‘a lot like Twitter, except with worse functionality and more…
A laugh-at horror for the times, dark humor biting in the dark (h/t tweet the great Miss Cellania this morning): Here we are, a celebration Sunday — the fourth of July, Independence Day, the federal holiday tomorrow — and it’s fairly nice here in California’s Central Valley, with a not-so-warm breeze and temperatures in the…
A shitload of news already this Thursday, and we’re just at mid-morning right now. Most of the shit is depressing and there’s some weird mixed-in, though, as a country based on the optics we’ve in for a rough road ahead. Almost all of news items can be directly/indirectly traced to chaos/bullshit coming from the bowels…
Update: A new, unvarnished video view of the Capitol-building attack from The New Times this afternoon — main written detail: The work of understanding Jan. 6 has been hard enough without this barrage of disinformation and, hoping to get to the bottom of the riot, The Times’s Visual Investigations team spent several months reviewing thousands…
