War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Yesterday, all US peoples — with the exception of peoples in Hawaii or Arizona, and maybe some parts of Indiana — lived through another piece of worthless tradition that really doesn’t do anything other than aggravate. Mankind has been living via daylight since forever, up at sunrise, down at sunset and work like a mad…
Being sick is a total bitch — and I say that in a nice way for all you female dogs out there. My youngest daughter came down out of the mountains a week or so ago just finishing up a bad cold, and promptly gave it to me, thank-you very much! Now after plying myself…
Take heart everybody, the situation is actually worse than we think, so there’s no need to panic…yet. Yesterday, there were a couple of ‘monster‘ reports — one in climate science, the other in economics — that explained in detail why both our environment and our state-of-living is in bad shape, and why the US and…
Today is payday for our five employees at my liquor store and putting together the payroll is the main concern this morning — we’re a rarity as we pay weekly, not every couple of weeks like most businesses. And we’re holding our own in this way-depressed economy, although we’re well off the mark we were…
Life ain’t so pretty no more. One Canadian’s view of nowadays: Future generations could find themselves dealing with serious catastrophes: the highly disruptive consequences of climate change; disruptions in the food chain due to ecological destruction; nuclear war (still a serious risk, even if it has faded from the public consciousness); massively destructive accidents (like…
One of the scary parts of climate change — and there’s a shitload of scary parts — is the unknown, stuff beyond what the science can reveal, or even if some particular action actually does more harm than good. No matter what all the experts say, the planet earth and all its now-7 billion inhabitants…
“The issue is not whether the Iraqi people will greet U.S. soldiers as their liberators, but what will they do six months after that. I find it naive and disingenuous to claim that you can create democracy in Iraq any time soon. The administration has already assured us that the U.S. will not stay there…
“To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. “To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. “To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet…
One real scary moment for Halloween is the overcrowding mob on hand for the party — the UN claims the population of the earth will top 7 billion on Monday, embellishing a smorgasbord of dangerous problems already facing a beleaguered planet. Despite a prognosis to the contrary: Max Singer, founder of the Hudson Institute, warned…
In recent history, one has learned to not trust a lot of information from any US government agency with a hidden/or not-so-hidden agenda — recent example is the State Department’s okay of the horrendous Keystone XL pipeline, claiming the 1,711-mile tube slated to carry peanut-butter-like toxic slop through the gut of middle America “would have…