War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Today marks the anniversary of that infamous White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner where then-President Obama roasted the shit out of the T-Rump, and most-likely put such a scar on the weasel he caused great harm to befall the US five years later. And that horror sustains itself to this very day. Thanks, Obama. No, wrong!…
(Illustration: California drought from April 2020 to April this year, and found here). Although the Joe Biden administration is attempting a full-throttle fight against the searing, on-going, rapidly-accelerating climate-change phenomenon, the heating of the planet continues with wide-ranging consequences. Here in California the obvious effect is water — there’s barely any, which leads to our…
As I noted in my post this morning, Joe Biden’s speech to Congress last night was a rousing success on many levels and the polling in the aftermath shows the hard results — Americans who watched Joe perform, loved it. Hence, Republicans are having a hard tine grappling with it, as it has become way-obvious…
Joe Biden’s speech last night to a joint session of Congress was a way-apparent success and a BFD — one of those orations that not only sits well in the mind, but had enough bite to float in the memory for awhile. Not only the image of two females behind him on the dias, but…
As Joe Biden gets ready to make his first speech to a joint session of Congress tonight, rolling with a theme of “America is on the move again,” there’s a bit of history, too: ‘He’ll deliver a speech more than a year into the pandemic with the smallest audience in recent memory and a backdrop…
Once again the floating skirt-tails of the T-Rump saga darkened another dim-bulb in the continuing tale of crime, corruption, and crass behavior — New York federal agents executed a search warrant this morning at the home and office of muckraker extraordinaire, Rudy Giuliani, as the noose tightens on high misdeeds and low intelligence. Rudy is…
One of my all-time favorite political people, of the non-office-holder type, is James Carville, coming to my attention as lead strategist for Bill Clinton in 1992, and has since remained in the forefront of talking politics in America and abroad ever since. He has a great zense of self-deprecating humour which adds to his appeal.…
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…
