War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Where does the asshole stop? Tucker Carlson is not only an unmitigated liar, but anti-societal in his rantigs about masks and the fever dream of freedoms. Indeed the horrors of irony are so lost on the right-handed nutjobs creating chaos in a dangerous environment. Despite the deaths of 572,850 Americans in just a bit more…
America right now is in a grip of not only a health-related pandemic, but also a mental-phyical epidemic of pure crazy-lying and bullshit by nearly half of the population — Republicans aren’t really doing anything to help the country, but are repeatedly trying to tear it down. A baffling situation to me when a large…
A horrible side effect of the COVID pandemic is a shift of resources from the Before Times normal health/medical operations, tests and other actions used to combat ‘regular’ issues like childhood immunizations and other disease treatments to a fulll-throttle push to gain a handle on the coronavirus. We could be in a world of hurt…
One of the scarier aspects of COVID-19 is its changing weirdness, not only in the quickly sprouting variants and mutations of the original coronavirus, but how science can do so much in the time we have — COVID is only about 18-19 months old, we here in the US have known about it now for…
As I posted last week, the 1990s were the best era of rock music, with the so-called ‘alternative rock’ really gaining a hold on the musical airwaves. And as I also wrote, despite the Elvis/Paul Anka era, then high school in the 1960s with the British invasion (the Beatles, Stones, The Who, the Kinks, the…
Just weeks following his election in 2008, President Obama did a couple of things that both pissed me off and let me down — one was naming Tim Geithner as treasury secretary (and later Larry Summers as head of the National Economic Council), idiot assholes that shit on any ‘change‘ anyone could ever believe in…
Joe Biden continues, even connecting with the hard-to-handle youngsters: Good vibes from young people it seems, despite some heavy shit going down — notable snips from the Harvard Youth Poll released today: In the fall of 2017, only 31-percent of young Americans said they were hopeful about the future of America; 67-percent were fearful. Nearly…
Blowback-arrests off the Jan 6 insurrection/riot never ends even with an attempted love match: Details via CNN this afternoon: The Justice Department has charged a Capitol rioter who was turned in by someone he matched with on the dating app Bumble, after he bragged about his exploits on January 6. According to court documents, one…
Today the 51st anniversary of Earth Day — began April 22, 1970, when life had a much-clearer feel and look to it, there was optimism in the long-range scope of nourishing our still green-ass planet. Just a bit more than two months later, the Environmental Protection Agency came into being, founded by Republican Dick Nixon.…
Meanwhile, beyond the shooting of guns and the killing thereof, the immediate COVID threat continues to expand with the possibility that even vaccines available, there’s enough assholes who won’t take a shot to keep the US from beating the virus — Republican are so shitting on this country. We’re about to reach a weird-ass milestone…
