Climate for Crazies
August 19, 2011Even as quick downloads of extreme weather have become the ‘new normal‘ in the US — baseball-size hail yesterday in Nebraska, and drought conditions have spread to 12 percent of the country — and even…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
GOP Storm-Drains The EPA
August 18, 2011Even as big chunks of planet earth have undergone some extreme weather recently — right now there’s a climate-change-influenced furnace blistering the US heartland — some dumb-ass, and way-dangerous people have continued to deny the…
Pump Perception
August 17, 2011(Illustration found here). Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of gas in my Jeep, this time at $3.99 a gallon, which is a dime drop since the last time a couple of weeks ago. Oil…
Pottery Shards
August 16, 2011Seemingly so long ago: Before the war with Iraq, Powell bluntly told Bush that if he sent U.S. troops there “you’re going to be owning this place.” Powell and his deputy and closest friend, Richard…
Baked Brains — Way Beyond The Deep End
August 15, 2011Left my post for just a week and imbecilic chaos ensues. As if in a fevered nightmare, the peoples of the world, and especially US peoples have taken complete leave of any known sense, and…
A Tolstoy Temperance
August 14, 2011Home from the holiday — nearly a decade since I’d had one of those ‘paid vacations‘ and it was a most-awesome trip. Since not a real trusting sort, and with my Jeep Comanche currently being…
Goin’ on Holiday
August 8, 2011Today starts the first official vacation I’ve had in years — the last a near-decade ago while working for a newspaper — and the feeling is already weird. I’ll not be posting again until most-likely…
Awash
August 6, 2011In a time so awash in dramatic events, especially the last couple of weeks and the debt ceiling/financial markets bombast — worse Wall Street week in three years, the US downgraded from AAA to AA+…
Jobs and Wall Street
August 5, 2011(Illustration found here). Yesterday’s suck hole on Wall Street is most-likely a harbinger of an anxious future. Scared of all kinds of money-entangled shit, the stock market cratered more than 500 points, the Asian markets…
A Delusion of Permanence
August 4, 2011One of the most-profound problems of humankind is the inability to see no tomorrow — or at least a tomorrow so unlike today. Life continues burns in the soul. Not so fast there, Sherlock. Humanity…