‘Dying in the Night’
October 12, 2010In deep spaces of the dark side, there’s no daylight, ever. Dying! Dying in the night! Won’t somebody bring the light So I can see which way to go Into the everlasting snow? — Emily…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
AfPak Able
October 11, 2010Last Thursday — Oct. 7, the ninth anniversary of the start of the Afghan War –Â Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Against the War gathered in front of the Walter Reed Hospital in DC to launch “Operation…
Fear Part Deux
October 9, 2010Fear is a soft sounding word, nothing scary about it, at least until some circumstance is attached. Last week, my first post on fear concerned the quiet, unassuming fright in the storing of mega-dangerous spent nuclear…
Krugman at 4 A.M.
October 8, 2010Job hunting will apparently go from bad to worse and then beyond. From Gallup yesterday: Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, increased to 10.1% in September — up sharply from 9.3% in August…
Morning Mourning
October 7, 2010A view of the future as the now: Hungarian sludge worker. (Illustration found here). A dam holding back acres of toxic red sludge from a metals plant in Ajka, located 100 miles southwest of Budapest,…
Joe?
October 6, 2010US politics creates some hardcore business deals, even unceremoniously dumping someone for an election. But one deal won’t die — an Obama-Hillary Clinton set-up for 2012. From CNN: “It’s on the table,” veteran Washington Post…
Slumping Toward Disaster
October 5, 2010“…she has trouble acting normal when she’s nervous…” — ‘Round Here, Counting Crows Just to really, really wanted to brighten up your morning. First, the International Monetary Fund admits that Europe, and the US, is…
War’s Children
October 4, 2010From Jason Ditz at antiwar.com: NATO is scrambling to do damage control tonight after a number of weekend incidents led to the deaths of Afghan civilians, including several children. US troops killed two civilians, including…
Fear
October 3, 2010News watching is a curious obsession. Among the many other neurotic proclivities living in my brain-matter’s attic, most likely the deep-set roots for this constant need for situational awareness is a fear of missing something…
Forever Dying
October 1, 2010Insane or not: Why would the US shackle itself to a place that’s been called the, ‘graveyard of empires,’ and where most of the world’s heroin has its birth? Or as Marie asked: “Uh, he…