‘Run, Forrest, Run’
December 28, 2011Books and movies are two completely different countries. In one you read by yourself (unless you’re in a group-grope book club), the other you see and hear — and the two supposedly connect when the…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Tea Cup Turbulence
December 27, 2011Climate change is corrupting Bangladesh tea — the low-lying nation has a great tea growing industry, but the warming temperatures with less rain not only stumps growth, but can alter the flavor. From Aljazeera English…
Floating Dreams
December 26, 2011Modern life isn’t what we figured a generation ago. The world is way-more high-strung, more anxiety-filled and dangerous. Just yesterday a couple of horrible tragedies — in Texas seven people were found shot to death…
Child of Now
December 25, 2011An avid movie-goer when much younger, I hadn’t set foot in a theater in years – DVDed everything — and not much appealed. In reality, I don’t really don’t care much for the medium any…
Table Scraps
December 24, 2011Just surfing the news this early Saturday morning, which dawned like a warehouse-of-other-Saturdays, though some would gullibly think it special, and rightly so, mainly due to the nasty fact it’s been so proclaimed for so…
Enigma Ball
December 23, 2011Mystery seems to part of the nowadays. In wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes and pestilence, understanding of the great scheme of things seems to be drowned in an unknown pool of mystery — unless…
‘I am a fat cat, I’m not ashamed,’
December 22, 2011(Illustration found here). In one of the most ironic and laughingly insulting remarks of the political year came yesterday from US Speaker of the House John ‘The Boner’ Boehner: “We’re here. We’re ready to work,”…
Liars and Other Assholes
December 21, 2011Tis the season for the big lie. Infamous fabricator Stephen Glass is now after a lawyer’s job — off ‘Shattered Glass‘ fame, he made up stories at the New Republic during the late 1990s and…
Gloom Before the Doom
December 20, 2011Last night on CBS News, an interview with US Defense head Leon Panetta took place on what’s called “the doomsday plane,” a modified Boeing 747, termed an E-4B by the miltary, and tricked out with…
Are We There Yet?
December 19, 2011US peoples are already sick of next year’s political rodeo. A majority chunk of Americans want the 2012 presidential campaign, readying to blast away in less than a month, to be over already — nearly…