A Terrible Tale Nearly Forgotten
April 1, 2011In the face of so much bad shit going on right now — even another US theater of war in Libya — the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan is taking a deep-back seat on the runaway…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Tea Party Blowback
March 31, 2011Despite the over-abundance of mustard, a shit sandwich is still a shit sandwich. US peoples know stupid when they realize it — something ain’t right: Just 32 percent of respondents viewed the tea party favorably,…
Sleep Not, Sweet Prince
March 30, 2011This story from last week (via Forbes): Federal safety officials are investigating a report that two planes landed at Reagan National Airport without control tower clearance because the air traffic controller was asleep. An aviation…
Climate Chatter — Fiddling with the Fiddler
March 29, 2011Even as radioactivity from Japan’s shredded Fukushima nuclear plant has been detected all over the globe, from China to the eastern part of the US, one killjoy piped up: Lake Barrett, a nuclear engineer and…
Krugman at 4 AM — Hey, They’re Orwelling My Privates!
March 28, 2011As these modern times gets more complicated, the ability of government to stare way-down into your bowels to catch a terrorist turd has come a long way, baby, and the future of freedom doesn’t appear…
Saturday’s Weather — ‘The idiot bird’
March 26, 2011While the northern California coastline continues its monotonous weather — Rain showers and isolated thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms may produce small hail — the US Upper Midwest is way-beyond the quiet isolated thunderstorm routine with a…
Heartless Hawkers
March 25, 2011Unlike many other countries on the planet, at least the ones who claim some form of freedom, a great obstacle facing US peoples is not the economy (though, it is terrible), nature or even some…
Dude, Who The Freak Is Virginia Woolf?
March 24, 2011(Illustration found here via Google Images). As the entire world appears to be going full-steam bat-shit insane, the announcement yesterday of the death of movie icon Elizabeth Taylor most-oddly gives life a more normal feel…
Fear Bunkers Going Bonkers
March 23, 2011“I’m sorry, please forgive me. I kept telling you, Jerry — all of you — get ready, build a shelter. Forget the card parties and the barbecues and make the admission to yourself that the…
Snapshot
March 23, 2011“There is a distance, a veil between us.” — ‘All Quiet On The Western Front,’ Erich Maria Remarque (Illustration found here). War as waged nowadays — slipshod and way-unnecessary — kills in ways way-beyond the…