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…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
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…
‘Tulip’ Tango
February 23, 2012Beyond war crimes: Peter Falstead of Jane’s Defence Weekly says the tail fins look, “very much like the tail fins from SM-240,†also known as the “Tulip Tree†developed by the Soviets in the 1970s.…
Ass in Charge — ‘take out the rubbish’
February 22, 2012Down through history, dictators and other such types have always launched slaughter sprees when needed to maintain hold on power, no big deal — in Syria nowadays, however, the horror virally gobsmacks the face of…
‘Scared to Death’
February 21, 2012A small instance of a humongous and worsening situation: The decline in the chipmunk’s genetic diversity occurred in the relatively short span of 90 years, demonstrating the rapid threat changing climate can represent for a…