Meanwhile, Back at the Wars
March 19, 2009Today six years ago, one of the most dumb-ass and dangerous operations in all of history started up and despite all kinds of processes to the contrary, is still going full banana with no end…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Yes! Yes! Hate and Anger!
March 19, 2009Gail Collins, who writes for the New York Times editorial pages, has penned a right-on, nail-’em-to-the-wall piece this morning on the AIG/banking/finance clusterf**k of a freakin’ mess. Collins is way-pissed: Angry. So very, very angry.…
Journalism: ‘It’s Not A F**king Game!’
March 14, 2009In the past few years, a lot of people and organizations who should have been the standard bearers for news gathering and reporting have dropped the ball big time — Journalism sucks nowadays. Despite all…
‘Hooker’ Guitar: GOP Music
March 12, 2009The new normal for Republicans exemplified by such goings on: Inverness Police say former Cook County Republican Chairman Gary Skoien admitted having two prostitutes in his children’s playroom when his wife walked in on him…
Rampage: ‘Never, Never’ Dreams
March 11, 2009Last graph in Al-Jazeera‘s report on Tuesday’s shooting in south Alabama: “The right to own guns has been fiercely defended in the US since the country’s civil war in the 19th century, and they are widely…
‘Eat’ the Truth — Deciders as Genociders
March 5, 2009After nearly a year, an arrest warrant was issued Wednesday for Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir, charging the guy with war crimes and crimes against humanity. The good Mr. President, however, told the International Criminal Court to…
A Soviet Bedtime Story: Obama’s Afghan Game
March 2, 2009Been there, done that. President Obama’s recent order to put 17,000 more US GIs in Afghanistan may be a move made too late, or in light of history, a shift toward disaster regardless of the…
Afghan Bog
February 27, 2009Why the US is losing the “hearts and minds” of the Afghan population: Between 1-2am on the rainy night of 16 January 2008, a large number of international military personnel wearing desert camouflage surrounded the…
Wonder with Stevie Wonder
February 26, 2009This dream-like, can’t-believe-my-eyes presidency continues: “And I think it’s fair to say that had I not been a Stevie Wonder fan, Michelle might not have dated me. We might not have married. The fact that…
‘Climate Storm’ — Unstoppable Catastrophic Calamity
February 25, 2009In what could be a major metaphor for the entire climate change debate occurred Tuesday, starting first at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and ending up in the Indian Ocean near Antarctica. NASA and…