War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
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…
A way-politicalized, straight-on clip that’s now all over the InterWebs since this morning, sure you’ve probably already seen it — I’m just going to pop it here where I can click on the post (especially from my iPad) see it again and again — right on the bulbous, enflamed nose: There’s more in the air…
My youngest daughter called me from Minnesota today one year ago. She sounded taken-way-aback, and a bit frightful — “Are you seeing what’s on the TV right now,” she nearly cried. “Duh!” I quickly replied. There was really nothing else to go with, no real usable words to conjure up an explanation for such a…
Thick fog covering the just-turning-dark this Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — a depressing look to say the way-minimum, but that’s the current motif seemingly embedded in our psyche nowadays. All looney tunes with the despondency, too, which makes it shit worse. Another piece of weird for this already weird new year — lightning…
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…
Mainly overcast, though, some faded-yellow sunshine appears occasionally here this mid-day Monday in California’s Central Valley — not bad considering Joe Biden’s return to DC earlier this morning: Report via NY1: A snowstorm in Washington, D.C., early Monday morning disrupted federal government operations across the city and even all the way north to Delaware, where…
Second day of 2022 and the feeling continues to reflect not-happy for Americans — new poll results (The Hill this morning): ‘Indeed, more than one-half (51-percent) of voters say that the U.S. democracy is at risk of extinction — including 49-percent of Democrats and Republicans, as well as 54-percent of Independents. Just one-quarter of voters…
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 —…
