Paper Cut
December 4, 2011Print journalism has lost another body part, this one right close to home. Next Thursday will end the 110-year-old life of the Humboldt Beacon, a weekly covering mostly the southern part of the county, a…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Watchers/Listeners
December 2, 2011“Even the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was tolerant by modern standards. Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant…
Bitch the Banksters
December 1, 2011If you thought bankers were assholes, you were wrong! Banksters are far, far worse. From Reuters: Major global banks are exacerbating the fight against global warming by supplying power utilities and mining firms with ample…
Venal Brains Cooking
November 30, 2011Most scientists identify as Democrats (55 percent), while 32 percent identify as independents and just 6 percent say they are Republicans. — Pew Research, July 2009 Reality conception doesn’t require the brains of a rocket…
Pump It Up!
November 29, 2011Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep — and, lo and behold — the price of a gallon of regular has dropped four cents to $3.95 in just two weeks.…
Monday Mourning
November 28, 2011Another thin-skinned GOP asshole caught being an asshole — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback got his panties in a bind when a high school student Tweeted that the good governor, “#heblowsalot:†Emma Sullivan, 18, was hauled…
‘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…
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…