Re-brand the Brand
June 25, 2011Apparently, the late Osama bin Laden was tired of his brand name — al-Qaeda just didn’t have the kick and the joke-juice necessary to kill the crowd. All organizations from time-to-time have to take a…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Change We Can Believe In
June 24, 2011Remember all those most-wonderful slogans bubbling up from Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, like ‘Change We Can Believe In,’ and ‘Yes, We Can,” which was chanted en-mass whenever the other motto ran out of steam.…
Morning Cycles
June 23, 2011(Illustration of Edward Hopper‘s ‘Morning Sun‘ found here). Here we are on a wee-early Thursday morning trying to slop through the night’s news and nothing other than the usual war, pestilence and grief, with much…
Premature Extraction — Drawdown Everlasting
June 22, 2011Actually, when you think about it, this country has had a manhood problem for some time. You can tell the language we use; language always gives us away. What did we do wrong in Vietnam?…
Dropping Acid
June 21, 2011Sitting here along California’s northern coast on a quiet Tuesday morning — the first day of summer — the world’s largest ocean continues its massive movement a couple of miles away, and even way out…
Gas and Other Forms of Indigestion
June 20, 2011On Friday, I put another $20 worth of fuel in the old Jeep and the pump price was the same as the last time — $4.19 a gallon for regular. Whop-pee! Isn’t that something? The…
More is Far, Far Worse — Not in ‘Their Right Minds’
June 19, 2011UPDATE BELOW George Jr. and his boys apparently pissed away more hard cash than was originally reported, maybe three times as much — displaying the dumb-ass norm for the entire Iraqi debacle. (Illustration found here).…
‘Give Peace a Chance’ — Discredit the Informed
June 17, 2011A lot of the horrific illegal mindset of modern times when it comes to dissent and contrary views to US government has its inglorious roots in the bowels of Dick Nixon. From the New York Times…
A Dog’s Paw: Climate’s Crusade
June 16, 2011The very most-wonderful dog I ever had was a Springer Spaniel (very similar to the one shown at left) named Bogie, one sweet animal given to me as a puppy. He was a pure breed,…
Word
June 15, 2011The real bullshit started here: “This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.” — Ron Ziegler, April 17, 1973 Of course, Ziegler went on to construct one of the more infamous of the Watergate…