War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Note: This post first appeared here Oct. 29, 2008. I’m re-posting because…I really don’t know why. Maybe it’s because this is the end of 2010, and the piece is just hanging, but that doesn’t make much sense. Maybe…I’m just too lazy, overworked, harassed by too much life — maybe…anyway, just read on). Voice-over: “I’ve decided…
Well, here it is — the last day of 2010, a year for the books, as they say. After an event-marked 12 months, this happy new year’s screed seems a bit optimistic as the entire planet seems to have jumped the snark. In the wee hours of morning, the weather is quiet, but cold here…
Dystopia from Wikipedia: Dystopian literature has underlying cautionary tones, warning society that if we continue to live how we do, this will be the consequence. A dystopia, thus, is regarded as a sort of negative utopia and is often characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government. Dystopias usually feature different kinds of repressive…
One of the principal traits of conservatives — that label is not used liberally — and anything GOPish is the great presence of fear: the Republican-upchuck fright-inducing phrase to the ignorant, ‘government takeover,’ has been crowned the 2010 Lie of the Year. As Greg Sargent noted the noteworthiness of the lie: The obvious reason is…
Where are we? And how do we get there from here? (Illustration found here). As horrendous 2010 A.D. swiftly comes to an end, the state of the planet leaves a lot to be desired. According to Wikipedia, ‘innovation‘ comes from the Latin innovationem, a noun of action from innovare: “to renew or change,” from in-…
(Note: To those few readers of this blog I hope you had a decent ‘holiday period, part one.’ I have a great hatred and loathing for anything that’s a lie — the Lottery, our current ‘terror war,’ the entire GOP, Hugh Hefner marrying for love, and among many, many other entities, ‘Christmas’ — and the…
As the Afghanistan experience slithers into the aftershock of a bad acid trip, the war pushers are saying one thing, and doing another — white assholes talking with big, ugly forked tongue. From the Army Times on 18,000 new troops for the Afghan theater: Defense Secretary Robert Gates signed the deployment orders a day after President…
A lot of different stuff need debate — tax laws, wars in foreign lands, and so forth. However, if something is near-overwhelmingly obvious any kind of debate just wastes time in seeking a solution to the debatable question. Global warming, i.e., climate change is one of those — the evidence is startling and should not…
Ho, ho, ho. A new study has revealed that the holidays, especially Christmas and New Year’s days, creates a strange, but opportune time to die. The report in the journal Social Science & Medicine details how for some reason people have a much-higher tendency to suffer fatal attacks on those two holidays than any other…
(Illustration found here). A lunar eclipse on winter solstice — first time since 1638. From Wired: The Earth’s shadow will begin to blot out the moon at 1:32 a.m. EST (10:32 p.m. PST). During totality, when the Earth is directly between the moon and the sun, the moon will turn a rusty orange-red for 72…