War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In the wake of yesterday’s surprise of surprises on the Supremes upholding the Affordable Care Act, a lot of people went slightly mad, most of the them from the right side of the nut bowl, claiming all things horrible in connection with Obamacare going live. The worst: Wing-nut Rep. Jean Schmidt screams with joy at…
As we await this morning the results of the nasty legal thoughts of the US Supreme assholes on the Affordable Care Act — a la ‘Obamacare’ — political verbiage is getting out of whack. Plain ole lying has reached an artless art form. liar Even forked-tongued master Sarah Palin opened her yap this week in anticipation,…
Amongst all the bad news pouring out of so many different sources, sometimes it’s hard to be shocked by shit, but yesterday, the announcement of the death of Nora Ephron was like a slap to the face. She was 71. And way-beyond being female, she was just one of the coolest people in media — one…
In a time when time waits for no sonofabitch, our climate is shifting right in front of our eyes and noses. Only ignorance or delusion could keep anyone from becoming fairly alarmed at the state of our only living space, and with the environment apparently going through big, big changes, humanity is right on the…
While my old stomping grounds along the Florida panhandle this morning are being banged about by stalled tropical storm Debby, and other parts of the country are fighting crazed forest fires or being jolted awake by a 3.4 earthquake, one strange item flies in the face of all that: Gasoline prices have dropped by nearly 15…
Nearly five-and-a-half years ago, Harvard energy and climate expert John Holdren, also president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, warned the planet about climate change: “We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more…
Glitch: 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 ether was kinda technically-freaky for awhile. Nowadays via a a portion of George Carlin: I use the f word in…
In 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 losses they face from volatile capital markets activities, but banks criticized the move as backward looking. Backward to what? Asshole…
Now 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 Drug Enforcement Administrator Michele Leonhart doesn’t have the intelligence to admit heroin is way-more harmful than marijuana — she dodged…
The 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, is a cumulative effect. One hot day people can tolerate, but a couple, that’s when you start seeing people getting…