War — Stupid is as Stupid Farce
April 6, 2011An example of the fiscal foolishness of war. From Stars and Stripes: The Air Force secretary says the service has been spending about $4 million a day to keep 50 fighter jets and nearly 40…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Doctor, Doctor — Health and Climate Change
April 5, 2011Climate change has already worm-holed its way into the tattered fabric of everyday life. The American Medical Association and its editorial from yesterday (Monday): If physicians want evidence of climate change, they may well find…
‘O’ Not Again
April 4, 2011In another attempt to pinch-out a phrase for the times, President Obama launched his 2012 re-election bid this morning with a stirring, “It begins with us,” planted on his official site at barackobama.com. I knew…
Quick Bleed — Techno Collapse
April 3, 2011An interesting post from Australian writer on peak oil, Cameron Leckie, on the most-interesting concept of catabolic collapse, and how this view of the inevitable failure of complex systems affects/effects our current world — a…
Revolt of the Bottom-Dwellers
April 2, 2011Ordinary US peoples are financial slaves to the rich: In terms of types of financial wealth, the top one percent of households have 38.3% of all privately held stock, 60.6% of financial securities, and 62.4%…
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…
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…