Gap-Stop the Laptop
April 2, 2009I hate Internet Explorer. My laptop went bozo Monday morning and I lost Mozilla Firefox and can’t get it back. IE sucks so bad, no linking, no images, no nothing. Bill Gates and Microsoft should…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
‘Ghost Net’
March 28, 2009Hack into the matrix: The malware is remarkable both for its sweep — in computer jargon, it has not been merely “phishing†for random consumers’ information, but “whaling†for particular important targets — and for…
Straight-Shooter Business
March 27, 2009Bow-tied and all business, long-time TV news journalist, Irving R. Levine, died Thursday at the age of 86. Levine was an original, who like Murrow, Cronkite, Howard K. Smith, to name a few, were themselves…
Despair Economics
March 26, 2009This so-called “financial meltdown” is indeed a down, but a descent from the base-bottom up — Close to 70 percent of the current unemployed in the US are blue-collar workers despite all the Wall Street…
When Smart-Ass Reporters Ask Dumb-Ass Questions
March 25, 2009News people working the White House are way-too-cool for school — Last night, they acted the arrogant clowns displaying delusional as opposed to actual smarts during President Obama’s press conference. (Illustration found here). Obama is…
Sugar-Coat the Stress
March 24, 2009A side effect of continuous bad news on the doorstep. This morning in the New York Times: The recession seems to have a sweet tooth. As unemployment has risen and 401(k)’s have shrunk, Americans, particularly…
An Audacity of Impertinence: Obama’s Toxic Shame
March 22, 2009If not for the way-pissed-off feeling I have, coupled with a sense of nothing-you-can-do despair, maybe this would be sad, or least wouldn’t appear so freakin’ obviously stupid: Mr. Haas walked on, his pink shirt…
IEDed at the ‘Gates of Hell’
March 20, 2009Ironic in an age of such brain-busting technology, such a simple device can cause such horror. Four US soldiers were killed last Sunday in a roadside IED blast in eastern Afghanistan, three of those from…
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…
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.…