‘Bad Apple’ My Ass
March 23, 2012Doc: I don’t give a shit if he’s from Johannesburg. I don’t want to hear dune koon or sand nigger from him or anybody. Vig: Captain uses those terms. Troy: The point is, Conrad, ‘towel…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Not Tomorrow
March 22, 2012There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past. –Â George Carlin On occasion there’s just too much going on to actually get a hold on some subject for a morning’s blog post,…
‘Obvious Satire’
March 21, 2012“I mean, with the other guys, you can dig into their past and find at least some shred of rational thinking, even if they’re cynically downplaying it now,” Gallardo continued. “But I get the sense…
Spring Well Sprung
March 20, 2012Raining like a mad dog up here on California’s northern coast, and in the pre-dawn hours, cold as shit. And on this first day of spring, weather is screwed. And so is the world —…
CSA — Crime Scene Afghanistan
March 19, 2012Although the name of the supposedly “lone service member” who killed 16 Afghan civilians a week ago has finally emerged — Sgt. Bob Bales — the names of the victims of the rampage haven’t seen…
Gas By Another Name — Cont.
March 18, 2012Another under-reckoning. From Nature: Recent studies have focused on the short-term contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to sea-level rise, yet little is known about its long-term stability. … Here, using a fully coupled model,…
Gas By Another Name
March 17, 2012Some joy from the Arctic Methane Emergency Group: We declare there now exists an extremely high international security risk* from abrupt and runaway global warming being triggered by the end-summer collapse of Arctic sea ice…
Pump Politics
March 16, 2012Sweet, Tiny Tim Geithner waxed philosophical last night, turning a gothic-literary phrase in explaining high US gas prices: Oil moves around in a “dangerous and uncertain world.†No shit nit-twit sherlock. And bravely battling this…
May’s March Madness
March 15, 2012Flowers blooming early — spring ain’t til next Tuesday: “My nightmare now is this weather,†Japanese ambassador to the U.S. Ichiro Fujisaki said at press briefing today at the National Press Building. “What are we…
News Spews
March 14, 2012People in the right-turn lane in the US South are wound up tighter than dick’s hatband: “We pray that you will lift him up and… make it known before this nation this is the man…