‘Toxic’ Climate-mess
November 27, 2011COP17 — the latest UN climate summit opens on Monday in Durban, South Africa, and what’s the action status to combat the way-greatest, quickly-coming threat to humanity? “They’re on the edge of a mess,” one…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
The Day After Thursday — ‘Rapid Crowd Movement’
November 25, 2011From the police playbook of mob control: A woman shot pepper spray to keep shoppers from merchandise she wanted during a Black Friday sale, and 20 people suffered minor injuries, authorities said. … Fire department…
History, Duh!
November 24, 2011“Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for — annually, not oftener — if they had…
Harvest Yesterday
November 23, 2011(Illustration found here). Tomorrow, of course, is turkey day — one of US peoples’ more obtuse holidays where actual thanksgiving gives way to stuffing the face with food. And like most of the other so-called…
‘Danger, Will Robinson’ — It’s The GOP!
November 22, 2011One cannot imagine the uselessness of combating anything of importance with those elected so-called leaders of the near-rudderless US of A — the failure of the “super committee” is the latest example of why mankind…
‘Lone Wolf’ — Update
November 21, 2011(Off my post this morning) The case against that guy arrested in New York City yesterday and charged with plotting to blow up U.S. targets, including American soldiers returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,…
‘Lone Wolf’ in the ‘Twilight Zone’
November 21, 2011The zealous approach to law enforcement in this age of protest and terror has created a strange and dangerous notion that a shitload of stuff is bad, when in reality, bad is self-perpetrating. Last night,…
‘Stupid Says, As Stupid Is’
November 20, 2011My apologies to one of Forrest‘s most-beloved quips, but US politics has become so much more than stupid talking, it’s mean-spirited pure ugly — especially amongst Republicans. Hence, the supposedly GOP presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich…
The ‘Fretful Zone’
November 19, 2011Headline-writers at the New York Times found a verb this morning in the middle of the third graph of a story on the US Census Bureau and its new measure of gauging just how bad the…
‘Enduring’ Mystery
November 18, 2011As events go, 1981 had its share of weird and nefarious shit — Ronald Reagan was inaugurated president in January, was shot and wounded in March and recovered enough by July to nominate Sandra Day…