White Out
June 24, 2012Glitch: A minor malfunction, mishap, or technical problem; a snag: a computer glitch. This site went white the last couple of days due to a odd malfunction in what’s called a ‘plugin,’ and the personal…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Bear Stearns Butterfly Effect — An Anniversary, Sort Of
June 22, 2012In keeping with the continuing tradition of the Great Recession: Ratings agency Moody’s downgraded 15 of the world’s biggest banks on Thursday, lowering credit ratings by one to three notches to reflect the risk of…
Happy or Self-Revision — Walking Bad
June 21, 2012Now with the official start to summer with a soggy solstice celebration in those far-distant lands, the US also finds itself in a struggle to keep a straight face on reality. Especially, and particularly, when…
‘Greenwash’
June 20, 2012The US mid-Atlantic states have been issued warnings for a coming heat wave in the next couple of days with temperatures expected in the triple digits. National Weather Service meteorologist Rick Watling: “Heat, of course,…
Chicken Little, What?
June 19, 2012(Illustration found here). All things on this planet have just three parts: A beginning, a middle, and an end. No matter the subject, the material, or the biological make-up, the life of all things have…
Tipping the Bucket
June 18, 2012This morning, worldwide financial honchos are letting loose a collective sigh of relief as the Greeks swallowed their medicine as the pro-bailout New Democracy party claimed “a victory for all Europe” in Sunday’s national election.…
Daddy Rules
June 17, 2012(Illustration found here). A must-read for this particular day — one small snip: For we judge between the plate that is unclean and the plate that is clean, saying first, if the plate is clean,…
Happy, Happy Anniversary!
June 17, 2012Today 40 years ago, I was getting ready for a much-awaited discharge from the US Air Force and looking forward to a fall enrollment at the University of Florida — one happy, though, clueless youngster.…
Oily Complexion
June 16, 2012In thinking of the past, more of the structured remembrance seems in reality an illusion — all the hype of those glorious, hey-days of the 1950s and 60s, when energy was so obviously abundant all-electric…
Hail and the Kitty
June 15, 2012US peoples have too much on their plate nowadays to contend with such assholish-childish political bullshit like this yesterday in Cleveland: According to reports from journalists on the scene, the GOP presidential candidate’s campaign bus…