War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Clear and chilly again this way-early Wednesday on California’s north coast, the moon hanging like a bright fingernail in the eastern sky. This morning some ugly from DC — both came yesterday via the heavens. First, the first Pakistani victims of a US drone strike testified in Congress. Rafiq Rehman and his two children, Zubair,…
Here we are in one word — Friday! Chilly and overcast up here on California’s north coast as we gleefully trot off into the weekend. Despite a lot of other shit happening, the NSA soap opera continues apparently unabated — beyond the leaders of Mexico, Germany, France, the Netherlands, others I forget, the US intelligence…
Leaks continue of the NSA’s nefarious proclivities worldwide, this latest today carries some technological irony: Obama and Merkel spoke over the phone after the chancellor reportedly received information that U.S. intelligence may have been monitoring her cellphone. Although I can’t really put my finger on the sense of it, but seemingly there’s something way-odd, and inherently…
Crystal-clear and a bit chilly this Friday morning on California’s north coast with a majestic full moon hanging mega-bright over it all — despite that, we’ve a 90 percent forecast for rain later today, maybe with some thunderstorms tonight. Weather is as peculiar as life nowadays. Apparently, in this humanistic, modern age, guns are king:…
High overcast this way-too-early Wednesday here on California’s north coast and mid-week pulls us closer and closer to the weekend. Which is exactly where we want to be — for now. And in the wake of the temperance-flare of President Obama’s anti-Syrian peace-now-but-war-later speech last night, the US can curl up and go fast asleep,…
Yipee! It’s Friday! Overcast a little bit up here on California’s north coast, but we’re on the cusp of a weekend so the weather is just a prelude to joyful two days away from the public. And the public sucks — at least down the manhole of private affairs. President Obama’s vow of an “outside”…
Fog again this way-early Thursday on California’s north coast, but the outside feels a bit warmer than yesterday — but it’s the weather, and who’s to really know? In the state of everything nowadays, who’s to know anything? Especially the state of a person’s mind — Bradley Manning leaks of himself: “I am Chelsea Manning.…
Welcome to harsh-reality’s end of the week — Friday! Another day, another life — sweltering, near-unlivable conditions up here on California’s north coast: The U.S. National Weather Service reports that the temperature in Eureka reached a staggering (‘round these parts) 73°, edging out the previous record of 71° set way back in aught three of…
Mid-week already, and nothing to show for it beyond two days of work. Fog again this Wednesday morning on California’s north coast, and a bit chilly, but according to the way-recent-past, it should be warm and sunny by noon. Apparently, President Obama has to be watched. Maybe the NSA can help keep an eye on…
In late July 2008, presidential-candidate Barack Obama during a tour of the western world displayed the ability to perform/transform a crowd — he easily tossed a three-point basketball shot before a speech in a gym to US troops in Kuwait. You can see the event here. A watershed moment for me in regards to Obama…
