Pump Sump
January 26, 2012Yesterday after work, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep Comanche, now back up at $3.89 a gallon for regular — up three cents since the last time we visited the…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Action Jackson
January 25, 2012Using Osama bin Laden as a kind of verbal bookends, President Obama jumped on reality with a touch of a man-up pose in his state-of-the-union speech last night, calling on the US to “restore an…
False on the Face
January 24, 2012Political lying as an art form: Take last Thursday’s Republican debate in South Carolina. Hundreds of G.O.P. voters applauded as Newt Gingrich blasted CNN’s John King for raising an accusation about marriage and sex in…
State of Dysfunction
January 23, 2012Subject to be most discussed this morning here in northern California — the 49ers loss yesterday to the New York Giants. Personally, I don’t give a fat-rat’s-ass, but this from fumble-bum Kyle Williams typified a…
More Real Than The Real — Really
January 22, 2012A horse walks into a bar in South Carolina, the bartender asks: Why the long face? A newt peed on me, answers the horse. The chaotic mess of the GOP primary is finally over and…
Disconcerting Circumstance
January 21, 2012(Illustration found here). In the US today, apparently all collective eyes were glued to South Carolina where intelligence-deficit Republicans held their primary to select from among a short-list of bullshitters a warm body to run…
News Slop
January 20, 2012(Illustration found here). This morning just about everything I read/look at is pure shit. If the Republicans have one more debate I might blow chunks all over my laptop — the blow-hole event last night…
Harsh Realities vs ‘Optimism Bias’
January 19, 2012Meanwhile, beyond the SOPA blackout/back-peddle, and the nasty, bitch-slapping noise in South Carolina from GOP presidential nit-twits vying for richest asshole, there’s the non-stop horror of climate change. Climate what? Last year, despite all kinds…
BlackOut — SOPA’s Choice
January 18, 2012(Illustration found here). Today is a kind of watershed moment when the Internets respond to attempts to censor shit by banging down the back door, but a load of ‘Net peoples have chosen instead to…
Repugnancy Ringing
January 17, 2012Too early for nausea already — an election year with a bad, bad hangover of way-too much asshole behavior: A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows a new high — 84 percent of Americans —…