Shame on Change
December 2, 2010In the beginning, Barack Obama carried a big bucket of change — change he claimed all of us could really, really believe in and live with as we moved onward into that most-wonderful future. My…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Hillary Hilarious
December 1, 2010UPDATE BELOW In the ugly aftermath of the WikiLeaks doco-dump. the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blubbered like a baby: “This disclosure is not just an attack on America’s foreign policy interests. It is…
‘Opportunity’ — Why the Afghan War is Doomed
November 30, 2010The US and its nit-witted NATO allies should pack up and leave Afghanistan right now — right here and now. And this terrible incident might be a major culprit (among a shitload of others). From the…
Wiki-Wiki — Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’
November 29, 2010The most-modern gadfly in the ointment of nefarious US governmental operations, WikiLeaks, dropped another load of classified documents into the vast media mainstream on Sunday, labeling this batch, “CableGate,” as the doco-dump is more than…
Cancún Canard
November 28, 2010Hope is a dim bulb for “CopenCun” — so nicknamed the UN climate summit which begins Monday in Cancún, Mexico — in that maybe some of the agreements wished-for during last year’s Copenhagen confluence disaster…
Vapor Day
November 26, 2010“Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white.” — Round Here, Counting Crows (Illustration found here). This morning for damn sure it’s…
Celebrate Slaughter Day
November 25, 2010Another day set aside for perpetual lying. (Illustration found here). As always, Mark Twain notedly recorded the festivities: “Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people…
Afghan War Degenerating — Worse than Vietnam?
November 24, 2010There’s a joke I tell people sometimes about my cigarette-smoking habit: “Worse dumb-ass thing I’ve ever done — next to being married twice.” (Illustration found here). Afghanistan has never, ever been any kind of a…
Cloud Hands
November 23, 2010This a photograph taken via cell phone near Willits, located in California’s Mendocino County, and e-mailed to me. Cloud formations are always inspiring, but this shot is oddly fascinating with an intriguing, pleading image for…
Ugly Tomorrow
November 23, 2010(Illustration found here). Another dire study on the state of nowadays. Although climate change, peak oil and all the assorted ugliness associated with both have been flashed around the news wire for months, if not…