Curve Ball
December 22, 2010A lot of different stuff need debate — tax laws, wars in foreign lands, and so forth. However, if something is near-overwhelmingly obvious any kind of debate just wastes time in seeking a solution to…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Death by Holiday
December 21, 2010Ho, ho, ho. A new study has revealed that the holidays, especially Christmas and New Year’s days, creates a strange, but opportune time to die. The report in the journal Social Science & Medicine details…
Lunar Eclipse
December 20, 2010(Illustration found here). A lunar eclipse on winter solstice — first time since 1638. From Wired: The Earth’s shadow will begin to blot out the moon at 1:32 a.m. EST (10:32 p.m. PST). During totality,…
End of Empire
December 20, 2010UPDATES BELOW America as world empire is tottering on the brink — in this modern age of so many different and terrible events are taking shape, the life of the vast majority of US peoples…
Dodged the Bullet — Once Again
December 19, 2010A bit of news not played up here in the US: Former Vice President Dick Cheney, known to his friends as just, The Dick, will skate on bribery charges brought forth by Nigeria — The…
Obvious — Yet, Maybe Not
December 19, 2010Watching daylight turn into rain, there comes a feeling that what is perceived as reality is just noise to a lot of people, creating a blip in the mojo, a trip in the ether, and…
‘Fear’ of the US
December 17, 2010Gone is that so-called “light on the hill” and that old-time “huddled masses” routine as the good-old US of A is now known as the hypocritical epicenter of life on the planet — if American…
Fox News! Ready To Be Even More Ignorant?
December 16, 2010One of the great horrors of our day is Fox News Corp. Not only does this faux journalistic organization distort, twist and outright lie about the news, but it makes regular viewers even more stupid…
Ha, Ha, Ha — Just A joke — Ha, Ha, Ha
December 15, 2010Life is so funny and hilarious, the bowels scream with laughter. (Illustration found here). Yesterday, the famous last words of Richard Holbrooke, the long-time US diplomat and President Obama’s point man for the Af-Pak theater…
Afghan Answer — ‘You’ve Got To Stop This War’
December 14, 2010As the conflict in Afghanistan reaches nearly a decade, the results are becoming more horrendous as time progresses — six US GIs were killed Sunday and the entire operation appears on the point of break-down…