War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
A little afternoon news look-see. If I can get the physical moxie in the PM, this could be a regular feature, maybe. A news junkie from way back, I hit a lot online news sites at least twice a day — once way early, then just after I get off work in the early afternoon.…
Snoop-dogs ain’t no tiny wieners — in the Guardian yesterday: But the documents reveal, too, the darker side of the NSA. It is indiscriminate in the information it is collecting. Nothing appears to be too small for the NSA. Nothing too trivial. Rivals, enemies, allies and friends – US citizens and ‘non-Americans’ – are all scooped…
Early Sunday and falling back on time. Actually, I’m still an hour ahead, but at my leisure sometime this morning will set life right, clock-wise anyway. The laptop, though, is already set in reality. Day Savings Time is pretty ridiculous. And depending on where you live in the US, the overall affect/effect of DST is…
In less than six short months, out has popped a storyline that just still won’t go away — America’s big spy agency is shown to be a cankered sore on a near-day-to-day basis. Now, the Angela Merkel (and near-about everybody else on the planet) episode. Mark Urban at the BBC summed up this farce of ‘intelligence’…
Once again, Monday morning and life starts at the top, then goes straight-down the tubes. Deep, wet fog as the work week starts here on California’s north coast, and we’re sure everyone’s geared-up and ready to go. Not! Beyond the obscene mess of US politics, the weekend was a slow-news cycle, unless reports carried the…
UPDATE BELOW Clear and chilly again this early Thursday on California’s north coast, the near-full moon hanging brightly out west over the Pacific Ocean. All seems serene. Appearances can be deceiving — in DC, the shit-for-brains bunch accomplished nothing more than raising the level of being “scoffed” and rebuked. Although our government is open again,…
Sparkling starlight this way-early Wednesday on California’s north coast, and a bit on the chilly side, too. We’ve been forecast for some frost in the internal valleys this morning, but out here next to the Pacific Ocean, it’ll be cool but way-pleasant. And as the incompetent, self-serving assholes in DC continue attempts to destroy what’s…
Another cold and clear morning here on California’s north coast — a Monday, too. A start to another week of dangerous, crazy life in the nowadays. One real loony point comes on Thursday with the debt-ceiling deadline, and after a “complete and utter wasted weekend” in the US Congress on trying to get a handle on…
Barack Obama is a contradictory marvel of twisted politics and illusion. Blowing into office chanting of transparency and openness, Obama now five years later could put Dick Nixon to shame — a new report on press freedom and the White House reveals a real-opaque reality to actual life, an administration disdainful of journalists: “This is…
Clear and a bit on the chilly side this early Thursday on California’s north coast as we addle on toward the weekend — which isn’t really anything other than a two-day work shutdown. And, by the way, a longer version is saddled upon the US right now — officially in the 10th day of hating…
