War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In this high-tech, social-media world, it’s not really surprising a new study shows the impact of T-Rump’s massive deception tactics on the faint of brain — since he’s been off Twitter, misinfornation online has way-dropped; (Illustration by Christopher Weyant, The Boston Globe, and found here). Leader of the free world, and the unfree world as…
Drama continies, though, not the classy type, more of a production from the theater of the absurd — a maddening absurdity. In just more than a year, the T-Rump has been impeached twice, this last one the result of an insurrection/riot plainly played out in front of the world. A scenario painfully-close to a screwball…
In our way-modern world social media opens shit up (except in the T-Rump’s case, closes it down) and exposes reality, as identifying the assholes from Wednesday’s insurrection encounter at the nation’s Capitol, leading to arrests and worse — family members going WTF. Best shot (h/t tweet BJ): And social media has also brought home, literally,…
A most-interesting last few days as we’ve gone from apprehension, to unreal terror and surrealisn, and then a tidal wave of major-event news — MAGA people getting arrested, fired or both, impeachment reports — to this afternoon of Twitter permanently suspending T-Rump’s account, knocking his fat ass off the air. However, he’s a sly-grifting piece…
Sunshine with a wisp of cold this early-evening Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley, outside is a breath of relief against the ugly, full-blown crazy of the nowadays — just in the backyard a few moments ago doing a B&M (Wine, wood-tip) when a huge flock of some-type birds coiled themselves directly above. I could…
Despite the deadly lure of doomscrolling even on this holiday Thursday in California’s Central Valley, I’m thinking rudimentary musical thoughts of the imagination — sunshine right now in late afternoon, a welcome respite and clears perceptions of gloom after nearly three full days of Tule fog, our area’s seasonal shitsville-weather period, a depressing gray stretch…
As the COVID-19 coronavirus sweeps across the planet, all of us have a shitload of time on our hands and a lot of sofa-dwelling, binge-TV time, and there’s a lot to view. Reportedly, popular for the era/moment are movies about virus outbreaks (Duh!) and assorted-like scenarios in keeping with our current predictament. What caused this…
Tonight 40 years ago, Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon. A recollection via the New York Post this morning: This incident took place on Dec. 8, 1980. Later that afternoon, Chapman did get to see Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, in front of the Dakota, where they lived. He proffered a copy…
Oddly, in this crazy era of COVID-19 I’ve been binging “Scrubs” the last week or so, and although it’s funny as shit, this episode was strange in its potent: I did the same thing with “The West Wing” in a quick binge right before the election — sort of made life a little smoother… (Illustration:…
Although it didn’t really need a scientific study to reveal this, but it does help — certain media consumption habits predict some Americans’ level of knowledge about COVID-19 and how to handle the pandemic. Not anything new, though — via PsyPost yesterday: Relying on web news sources, in contrast, was associated with a reduced tendency…
