Probe the Soul
July 12, 2011Lawyers apparently have always been legal assholes. From Roman third-century lawyer, Ulpian, on torture: “The strong will resist and the weak will say anything to end the pain.” Yet to torture is a righteous path:…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Unemployment As Job One
July 11, 2011“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.†— Oscar Wilde (Illustration found here). If the horrible US jobs report on Friday was anywhere near shocking for you, as Paul…
‘The Fourth Estate’
July 10, 2011Last night, I started reading Jeffrey Archer’s ‘The Fourth Estate,’ a big-fat novel about a couple of apparent Rupert-Murdoch-kind of assholes trying to control the world, and in the words off the back cover, an…
The Obama Illusion
July 8, 2011One of the way-great disappointments in US history is Barack Obama, growing from ‘yes, we can’ to ‘no way’ in the space of a finger snap. Most likely, a great reason for the depressed anxiety…
Time is a Beatle
July 7, 2011Today is ex-Beatle Ringo Starr’s birthday — he’s 71. SEVENTY-ONE! WTF! The boy is suddenly a freakin’ old man. Seems just like the day before yesterday when Ringo responded to the question, ‘Are you a…
Haboob Hello — Beyond the ‘Tipping Point’
July 6, 2011Haboob: A strong wind that occurs primarily along the southern edges of the Sahara in The Sudan and is associated with large sandstorms and duststorms and may be accompanied by thunderstorms. It usually lasts about…
Surge Dirge
July 5, 2011All over the hotel, dignitaries, who had come to the capital to discuss the future of Afghanistan’s security, locked themselves in lavatories or hid under beds as the killing began. — The Telegraph, on the…
Celebration
July 4, 2011Another view of this particular day: You profess to believe “that, of one blood, God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth,” and hath commanded all men, everywhere…
The GOP — One Ugly Crowd (And Bat-shit Crazy, Too)
July 1, 2011(Illustration found here). One must always keep in mind when giving any thought to how Republicans govern to this heart-felt comment from mush-faced twit Mitch McConnell from last October: “The single most important thing we…
Pump Pressure
June 30, 2011Once again, another $20 worth of gas in my Jeep yesterday, the pump price now at $4.09 a gallon for regular, down a whole dime since the last visit 10 days ago. Gas prices are dropping,…