News! Cat Wags Dog’s Tail
October 1, 2009A lot of shit bubbling in modern life’s drainage ditch — on the toilet with a bit of news. General Alarm In pushing President Obama even further back into the corner of Afghan war escalation,…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Spies, Lies and No Video Tape
September 30, 2009A major, major story, though few in the US are even aware of it. (Illustration found here). Via The Brad Blog on Monday, Marc Grossman, a former US ambassador to Turkey and George Jr.’s third-ranking…
Afghan Awful
September 28, 2009“On the heights of the Kabul Gorge, they still find ancient belt buckles and corroded sword hilts. You can no longer read the insignia of the British regiments of the old East India Company but…
Cash-n-Go: TARP Gone
September 26, 2009Naomi Klein talked with Michael Moore on his new documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story.” The interview in The Nation online examines the lust-for-dollars. Says Moore: “Well, people want to believe that it’s not the economic system that’s…
Fragments from a place far, far away and long, long ago
September 24, 2009Announced quietly last week was the death of Jody Powell, 65, press secretary to Jimmy Carter, ‘A leader for a change,’ whose presidency inadvertently was the last apparently in Americana’s more sane and serene view…
9/11/01
September 11, 2009This from Josh Marshall and his fledging Talking Points Memo on Sept. 11, 2001 — unaware of even a worse horror coming: TPM, of course, is normally all about arguments among us, among Americans. But…
Obama’s Dark-and-Dire Decision — Afghan Cataclysm?
September 10, 2009(Illustration of Salvador Dali’s The Visages of War found here). War is not pretty, funny or real clever. War is Ambrose Bierce‘s ‘Chickamauga‘ revealed as “the dead body of a woman — the white face…
Earth’s Frantic ‘Wake-Up Call’
September 6, 2009Global warming is not only about oceans and weather, but also the land. (Illustration found here). Just as more bad global warming news gushed forth — sea level rise, unprecedented regional droughts, and, the Arctic is…
Tortured Reading
September 5, 2009“They stuff people’s heads down the toilet the first day at Stonewall,” he told Harry. “Want to come upstairs and practice?” “No, thanks,” said Harry. “The poor toilet’s never had anything as horrible as your…
‘Strange Days, Indeed, Mama’
September 4, 2009As I was thinking fairly-clear this morning — thinking is sometimes for me a really, really mega-complicated ordeal and not so unclouded — and although mostly about all kinds of related/unrelated shit, the focus finally…