Denial Ain’t Just A River
July 11, 2012AFTERNOON UPDATE (Below) One can truly believe Republicans are all mouth but no brains — knock it down without any talk of an alternative: In the last year and a half, House Republicans have sent…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
No Getting Over It
July 10, 2012Early this Tuesday, not quite 4 A.M. here on California’s northern coast, a morning of cool, moist fog with a day ahead of most likely the same — the sun might burn it off later…
Afghan ‘Talk Show’
July 9, 2012Hiding in plain sight behind the crazed presidential election and the extreme weather experienced by most US peoples the last couple of weeks, the killing fields of Afghanistan are still being plowed. Six US troops…
Ernest Borgnine — adios
July 8, 2012Dutch Engstrom: Man, you sure must have hurt that railroad. They spent a lot of money setting up that ambush. Pike Bishop: I caught up with them. Two or three times. There was a man…
Gag Me
July 6, 2012One snap indication of just how malicious life has become in public discourse was the incident yesterday when a Mitt Romney supporter, 77, gagged a rally protester by shoving a handkerchief into the 25-year-old union…
Gilded Blowout
July 5, 2012In this the day after our Independence Day, the world looks about the same from up here on California’s northern coast, although the real word of the day yesterday (via Urban Dictionary) was “Freedom Fondle”…
Extreme Fireworks: ‘A truly peculiar moment’
July 4, 2012Here on California’s northern coast it’s cool and moist way-early this July 4, and most-likely will evolve into another sweet day — clear and warm. Nowadays, the word, ‘warm,’ however, is way-relative. Travel just a…
Gas of ‘Plunder’
July 3, 2012Although prices at us gas pumps are down and people will still hit the road this week, they won’t spend much along the way, especially for patriotic merchandise, including flags, apparel and decorations. And the…
Band-Aid the Bitch
July 2, 2012In the wake of the health care dust-up last week, the bat-shit crazy side of US politics won’t let it rest, and in doing so, truly revealed just how nasty and mean-spirited their hearts. This…
‘A peculiarly Western phenomenon’
June 30, 2012As a single parent who raised five kids on a below-par income, there was never wasted food amongst us, and after each meal, not much left-over either. And shit never went bad in the fridge,…