Year’s End
December 31, 2010Well, here it is — the last day of 2010, a year for the books, as they say. After an event-marked 12 months, this happy new year’s screed seems a bit optimistic as the entire…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Orwell Now!
December 30, 2010Dystopia from Wikipedia: Dystopian literature has underlying cautionary tones, warning society that if we continue to live how we do, this will be the consequence. A dystopia, thus, is regarded as a sort of negative…
‘Fear Center’ — Wing-Nut Brains
December 29, 2010One of the principal traits of conservatives — that label is not used liberally — and anything GOPish is the great presence of fear: the Republican-upchuck fright-inducing phrase to the ignorant, ‘government takeover,’ has been…
Innovative Reality — Fruit of the Past
December 28, 2010Where are we? And how do we get there from here? (Illustration found here). As horrendous 2010 A.D. swiftly comes to an end, the state of the planet leaves a lot to be desired. According…
Krugman at 4 AM — Resources Gone Bye-Bye
December 27, 2010(Note: To those few readers of this blog I hope you had a decent ‘holiday period, part one.’ I have a great hatred and loathing for anything that’s a lie — the Lottery, our current…
Forked Tongue on a ‘Wicked Problem’
December 23, 2010As the Afghanistan experience slithers into the aftershock of a bad acid trip, the war pushers are saying one thing, and doing another — white assholes talking with big, ugly forked tongue. From the Army Times…
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…
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…