Not a Fluke
March 3, 2012Because there’s two kinds of women. There are two kinds of women and you, as we well know, are not the first kind. You, my dear, are a slut. — Victor Komarovsky to Lara Antipova,…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
An Ocean of Weather
March 2, 2012After growing up in the tornado-infested deep South, ugly weather has always scared-the-living-shit out of me — my dad’s mother always pitched a wailing fit when the wind started howling, crying about how we’re all…
Pumped Up Bogus
March 1, 2012Yesterday I felt the first personal shock at the fuel pump when I put another $20 worth of gas in my Jeep Comanche — the gauge screaming now at $4.49 a gallon for regular. Whoa!…
Hustle Up
February 29, 2012We can all sleep better now that Mitt Romney is once again the top GOP dog — slipping past the field in Arizona, and especially in the land of his birth, Michigan: ” … We…
Turd Privilege
February 28, 2012Wealth can indeed make one an asshole. A new study indicates when a person has more, he will take more: Those findings led to a series of experiments that revealed that people of higher socioeconomic…
Silent Screaming
February 27, 2012Irony is today’s word. Just as ‘The Artist,’ an ode to silence, won Best Picture at last night’s Oscars, the organization known for anti-silence, WikiLeaks, dumped another load of classified files onto the public —…
Educating little Rick — ‘No dark sarcasm in the classroom’
February 26, 2012The vaulted Michigan primary is this Tuesday and the ugly, nasty waters of the GOP will be muddled even further if Mitt Romney loses — the man’s biggest rival, bonehead Rick Santorum, blubbered to voters…
Celluloid
February 26, 2012One of the all-time narcissistic, stream-of-fantasy events happens tonight — the 84th Academy Awards — and despite all the current problematic horrors cowering the world, millions and millions of people will tune in to snag…
Alseep at the Wheel
February 25, 2012Sometimes the end tells more than anywhere near the beginning — this the last paragraph from a feature at The Economist on coal usage in Asia and how it does ‘worry’ the rest of the…
State of Mind
February 24, 2012Out here on the so-called ‘Left Coast,’ life is about the same as anywhere else, but it’s CALIFORNIA. And according to a new poll, most of US peoples hate us: Only five are in negative…