Perilous World
April 28, 2011Weather horror back East is only a prelude to the coming commonplace. A tornado onslaught yesterday killed 159 people across the US south, 128 in my birth state of Alabama — a catastrophic situation which…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Shame
April 27, 2011George W. Bush, president: “We don’t torture.” (November 2005) George Jr., nit-twit civilian: “I sanctioned torture of 9/11 mastermind.” (November 2010). Another excerpt from the US shame files was cut open this week with the…
Dr. Methane Gun, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Extinction
April 26, 2011In viewing climate change, every so often there comes along some aspect of that horror-in-coming that’s even more morbid, more dark-cast depressing than normal, and one of those is the impact of methane gas deposits…
‘Cold, Cruel and Irresponsible’
April 25, 2011Never in US political memory has the discourse become so full of one-sided hate and animosity toward the unwashed masses, i.e., the poor and other meaningless pieces of considered flotsam supposedly throttling the rich from…
Drone On ‘Heroes’
April 22, 2011We can all rest much, much easier as Jackboot John McCain has his slippers fast on the ground in Libya: Aljazeera ‘s Sue Turton, reporting from Benghazi, said McCain told reporters he was there to…
Faster, Uglier
April 21, 2011(Illustration found here). As 2011 marches right along, and even as we celebrate the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill (BP high-fived the celebration by doling out big bucks to Republican ass-kissers), and try…
If Looks Could Laugh
April 20, 2011WTF — Sonofabitchin’ asshole of a shithead! Researchers found that the students were able to keep their hands submerged in the icy water for longer when repeating the swear word — establishing a link between…
End Cycle
April 19, 2011Human life does indeed travel in cycles — spring, summer, fall and winter — with birth, youth, middle age and the final and abrupt circuit, death. History also appears to move in cycles and the…
Too Much of Everything
April 18, 2011Peter: Let me ask you something. When you come in on Mondays, and you’re not feeling too well, does anybody ever come up to you and say “sounds like someone’s got a case of the…
Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ — One Big-Assed Tale Concluded
April 17, 2011(Illustration: ‘Burning of Colours‘ by Wojciech Kossak found here via Google Images). After more than three months, Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace‘Â is finally finished — and to reveal how good a read it’s been,…