Horror!
June 6, 2012What a drag! When I got up this morning, switched on the laptop, pulled up CNN and saw that Scott Walker had eventually won in Wisconsin, a wailingly-loud, horrible, throat-clutching scream wanted to flee my…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Up In Smoke
June 5, 2012Ballot-box day across the US, including a primary right here in California and a nasty knock-down-drag-out fight in Wisconsin — 100-percent 24-hour political cycle. Four other states — Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota…
Quiet Riot
June 4, 2012Jeremy Scahill, noted national security correspondent for The Nation, spoke this past weekend on the bottom line for the US drone wars: It’s murder — it’s mass murder — when you say, ‘We are going to…
Candle Light
June 3, 2012History is relative. And in this 24/7 nowadays it’s way-hard to imagine any kind of life without electrical power. Hence, last week Leon Panetta spelled it out: “Well, there’s no question that if a cyber…
To-morrow, To-morrow…
June 3, 2012Obvious the strange, though, deviations are not that unfamiliar. In the wake last week of some nefarious-images of face eating and kitten strangling, the entire human system appears to be heading off into a bad…
400 PPM — RIP
June 1, 2012Celestial crazy continued yesterday in New York City with “Manhattanhenge†— the rare, though not unheard of phenomenon when a setting sun perfectly aligns itself with the Manhattan street grid and invoked native daftness: “Taxi…
Shock — Not
May 31, 2012In the outward appearance, the whole-wide world has gone bat-shit crazy, maybe as a run-up to some real-bad episodes coming for mankind and its immediate offspring. In Seattle, of all places, and in a “very…
Shame of the Sham
May 30, 2012A clear, quiet early morning here on California’s northern coast, and compared to the remarkable heat-wave blasting the eastern part of the country this week, the weather around these local parts is near-envious. The environment…
‘Graveyard’ of Assholes
May 29, 2012In the wake of another attempt this morning to fight modern life in Afghanistan — 160 girls were poisoned at a north Afghan school, the second such incident in a week — the conflict there…
One Day — ‘Memories are Short’
May 28, 2012Welcome Memorial Day 2012. In Afghanistan, where war has raged seemingly forever, and where US GIs have been maimed and killed for near 11 years, comes the family-gathering-remembrance of a NATO airstrike that wiped out…