War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration: ‘The White Tiger of Autumn,’ by Kevin Lee Drum found here). On this early Sunday, the world is in a fog. Here on California’s north coast, it’s literal — deep, ground fog, a normal, misty part of the local environment. In a couple of hours or so, sunshine and warm breezes. Out in the…
Ground fog again this early Thursday on California’s north coast as the work week starts to grind down toward the finish line of Friday afternoon. The weekend is now in plain sight. Yesterday, one discovery was the weird crater on the Russian Siberian peninsula of Yamal, which means the ‘end of the world.’ All kinds of theories…
Fog again this early Wednesday on California’s north coast as we quickly work forward — today is the fall day toward the weekend. Hip-hip hooray! Although the NWS calls it “patchy fog,” the shit here on the coast feels like a soft, wet rain. Yesterday morning walking to work I could nearly feel the individual…
Thick ground fog and a deep quiet this early Tuesday on California’s north coast in a typical weather scenario for the area — misty wet until about noon, then sunshine. And in the mid-60s, which is nearly 20 degrees cooler than just a few, scant miles inland. Worse piece of shit: “That ought to be…
Crying into a sleepless dark is usually part-n-parcel of episodic insomnia, at least for me, when about a hundred-trillion self-scurrilous thoughts, mostly-redundant, yet savagely fighting each other for dominance, finally finish their shitty work, and tears flow pitifully onto pillows. Sad shit, huh? Not all those wide-awake periods include crying — a lot of times,…
(Illustration found here). Just as everything got worse, it did — dust blown thousands of miles is darkening ice on earth’s glaciers and in the Arctic, eliminating “albedo,” the process of ice reflecting sunlight, adding heat in the environment, and further/faster climate change. From the Guardian today: The phenomenon of “dark snow” is being recorded from…
Overcast with a bit of ground fog this early Tuesday on California’s north coast as we pass the halfway mark for 2014 — time flies, period. Fun or not. Although we’ve had some gorgeous weather here, another product of the times — a derechos — had formed in the US Midwest and last night churned…
Clear on a Monday here on California’s north coast with the skies still dark and chilly. Weekends move much-too fast and always it seems the first day of the week is the quickest on the draw. Beautiful weather around these parts, though, with Saturday and Sunday both bright and warm; more sunshine expected the rest…
Near-crystal-clear this early Friday on California’s north coast with a jagged half-moon rising late in the far eastern sky. And the sun should come up like cold thunder in a couple of hours. But it’s Friday! On the eve of summer — officially starts tomorrow at 6:51 AM EDT — life in its manifest bullshit…
Ground fog this early Friday on California’s north coast — just a little while ago, the sky was clear and a full, bright moon hung like a porthole high in the southern sky. And for the first time in nearly 14 years, today, Friday the 13th — a full moon, most frightful than normal: The…
