War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
On occasion being ‘under the weather’ can cut some of life’s tangled problems loose as when one is sick, nothing else matters but being sick. So, I paid scant attention to the two neurotic GOP debates over the weekend — these guys are after blood, and they don’t care whose blood, just so long as…
No, this morning it’s not about global warming — I’m sick, or feeling like I’m sick, or feeling/looking like shit, whichever applies when all else fails. Despite some good sleep, I awoke this morning still feeling ‘under the weather,’ an odd term covering a lot of ugly: somewhat ill or prone to illness; “my poor…
In some political breathing room before the New Hampshire primary next week, another chance to check out how the great oil wars are performing. Yesterday, I sloshed another $20 worth of gas into my old Jeep with the pump price at the neighborhood Union 76 remaining at $3.83 a gallon for regular — same as…
The horror of Iowa: No wobbling of that sort from Santorum — he’s an out-and-out denier. “There is no such thing as global warming,” he told a smiling Glenn Beck on Fox News in June 2011. That same month, he told Rush Limbaugh that climate change is a liberal conspiracy: “It’s just an excuse for…
Finally and officially, the 2012 political bullshit starts today. Republicans are gathered like hogs at the trough as the Iowa caucuses gather to select somebody to head the GOP into November, but there’s a long, hard, pot-holed road ahead — millions of dollars squandered and 13 nonsensical debates later, all is at last hung out…
As the new year grinds on, politics has taken the edge off the nearly unnoticed pullout of US troops from Iraq, ending a segment in one of the most-horrible of episodes. And the most lied about military adventure in US history. “In making the case for war, the Administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when…
Another usual first day event for the new year — from CNN: For the second year in a row, dozens of blackbirds died overnight Saturday in Beebe, Arkansas, apparently after being startled by New Year’s Eve fireworks, an official with the state’s Game and Fish Commission said Sunday. … A much larger bird kill was…