Krugman at 4 AM — Cry-Baby Diddler
December 13, 2010This country is in a mess, so tangled in foreign conflicts and so twisted in domestic economic terror there may be no way home. And one of the major reasons: The lying, nasty-faced GOP. Last…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Watershed Year
December 12, 2010(Note: This is a re-post of mine from three years ago, and with an end of the year coming again, appropriate. The original piece appeared here on Dec. 30, 2007. And yes, indeed, 2008 was…
NIE — Doublespeak Dreaming
December 12, 2010UPDATE BELOW Orwellian coin: Winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to…
Sad
December 10, 2010A lot of viewpoints have changed in a real-short period of time. Only in the last few weeks have I began to fathom the understanding President Obama might just be a one-termer — a concept…
Common Canker
December 9, 2010In an age of near-total uncertainty, there’s an upswing of ugly sweaters for the holidays and a worldwide view of a growing, unstoppable corruption. (Illustration found here). A survey for the times — 60 percent…
‘Give Us A Kiss’
December 8, 2010This evening 30 years ago, John Lennon was shot dead — a shock end to an era. In this an iconic anniversary for an icon, a lot of media attention will focus on Lennon’s years…
Pride & Prejudice
December 7, 2010One of the most compelling, thought-provoking and candid assessments on the state of the planet came this week from a Native American educator, who bares the reality of both history and the terror of nowadays.…
Krugman at 4 AM — Jobs Limited
December 6, 2010Trying to find a job in the US is getting to be worse than a bitch. From Calculated Risk: For the current employment recession, employment peaked in December 2007, and this recession is by far…
The Great Wiki-Wiki Depression
December 5, 2010Some serious-looking stuff there, just down the road a-coming. (Illustration found here). As I’ve mentioned before on this blog — to the mega-scant regular readers (on average) — life has become so physically dysphoric in…
‘Chicken Crap’
December 3, 2010(Illustration found here). Yesterday from the mouth of the heartless insane — via UPI: U.S. Rep. John Boehner, the incoming House speaker, described a Democratic move Thursday to limit the extension of the Bush tax…