War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Fading sunshine and cold air this early-evening Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley, as we claw closer to the holiday drop zone, now just four days away. Christmas might be a little stand-offish this year. Pandemic peaking (NBC News a couple of hours ago): The latest surge that is driving up the number of Covid…
Just a while ago this Tuesday morning, the real heads-up on our current life predicament — shortest day, longest night — and the starting of most-likely a festered winter of our discombobulation: Details via NASA: Solstices come twice a year. For the Northern Hemisphere, the summer (June) solstice occurs around June 20-21, and the winter…
Fallout off Joe Manchin’s back-stabbing Joe Biden’s Build Back Better act continues to flare and fester, especially as it’s known Manchin is just being a asshole-douchebag — news right-off-the-bat this morning and his core realities (HuffPost): Publicly, his biggest gripes are about the cost of the bill. But privately, Manchin has told his colleagues that…
Monday morning and Omicron time: US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy this morning (CNN): ‘“In the coming weeks, Tony, we are going to see a spike in cases. And that’s because Omicron is incredibly transmissible, and you know, we have to be prepared for that,” Murthy said. “But there will be a stark difference between…
Bypassing the roaring news cycle this evening, a brief current-affairs history insight. In this past year, along with a horrifying, never-ending pandemic, severely-serious Republican democracy dismantlement (and pandemic enhancement), and a shitload of lesser ills, we’re also in a scary-freaky mechanical-tech outburst, exacerbating the crazy. Nostalgia for just a short time ago: (Illustration found here).…
Dense, chilly fog here mid-day Sunday in California’s Central Valley, a full-scale return to our ‘tule fog‘ bullshit once again after some rain last week, with the version this morning a thick, near-opaque gray in absolutely-zero wind — zilch in any kind of movement. A simile in the ugly Joe ‘MonsterMash’ Manchin — : In…
Sunshine earlier this afternoon, and now a pleasant Saturday evening in California’s Central Valley, this another post tagging along with one earlier today on the ill business of climate change — Rod Serling strolling the deck of the Titanic with full foreknowledge of what’s going to happen, ‘submitted for your approval,’ the horror to come.…
(Illustration: ‘Antarctica,’ Esri/Antarctica REMA Explorer, and found at the BBC). In the press of daily activities, both in the ever-shitty news cycle and most-likey within each of our lives, the wondrous COP26 climate conference is far-gone and its subject matter plastered onto a back burner — how to survive the holidays with a resurging coronavirus…
Shuffling beyond the sharp-cutting-edge of the news cycle this Friday evening, to just finish off a week of nasty, intimate, deep-seated views of an attempted coup/election steal from just about every known Republican/wingnutter in DC and just view a wonderful, nostalgic photograph — a look far, far back, and seemingly so wretchedly long ago: George…
As the COVID pandemic appears to be getting ready to hit the high-surge button again, this particular virus news story this morning was not top of a lot of media lists, usually well down on homepages — maybe we already knew this shit, or something (per CNN): Trump administration officials made “deliberate efforts to undermine…
