Guns: ‘I was lucky’
January 12, 2011One of the most amazing items within the horror of the Tucson shooting this past weekend is the abundance of firearms found in the US and how a whole, dumb-ass shitload of people think it’s…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Shooting — Rumination of Ruin
January 11, 2011Even as the news of the world continues to play out, the shooting last Saturday in Tucson keeps it fingers tight on my brain. Involved within this tragedy is a mural of how the US…
Krugman at 4 AM — Democracy in the Crosshairs
January 10, 2011In the wake of Saturday’s Tucson shooting, it’s hard to find any kind of humor in the horror that’s been coming from the right side of the political aisle the last couple of years —…
Shooting: Next Day
January 9, 2011Despite a time when shit events occur fairly often, a real big piece of shit can still make make an impact. An incident of such monstrous audacity can create a blip on the timeline —…
Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ — One Big-Assed Tale
January 9, 2011(Illustration found here). Currently, I’m wonderfully-creeping through Leo Tolstoy’s epic Napoleonic-era masterwork, War and Peace — and that’s Count Lyev Nikolayevich Tolstoy to all of us way-west of the Volga — Russians tend to have…
Shooting
January 8, 2011In a short aftermath of the shooting incident in Tucson, Ariz., this morning, one blurb cut through the bullshit. Pima County sheriff, Clarence W. Dupnik, as quoted by the New York Times: “The anger, the hatred,…
Futile: adjective; incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful: See Afghanistan
January 7, 2011‘Peace upon earth!’ was said. We sing it, And pay a million priests to bring it. After two thousand years of mass We’ve got as far as poison-gas. — Christmas: 1924, Thomas Hardy (Illustration found…
Guns and Butter and Poverty and Suicide
January 6, 2011A sad state of affairs as the US of A goes quickly to shit — a Frankenstein-ed, old-body parts Dick Cheney looking a warmongering freak, another killing at another high school shooting, and John ‘The…
‘Drastic’ Currents
January 5, 2011Another brick in the wall of climate change. In a new study published via the US National Academy of Science journal PNAS, releates some most-incredible changes in North Atlantic Ocean currents, a series of shifts…
Survey Says!
January 4, 2011A couple of recent surveys/polls reveal US peoples’ distaste for shit — both via Raw Story. Last Thursday, a national CNN/Opinion Research poll indicated 63 percent of respondents think the Afghan war is going badly…