Tortured Ghost of Dicks Past
May 2, 2009“When the President does it, that means it is not illegal.” — Richard M. Nixon, TV interview with David Frost, May 20, 1977. Condi Rice opened her mouth this week and spewed forth Dick Nixon,…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Swine Poo and Assorted Mules
April 30, 2009Toxic Hog Dump (h/t to tristero at Hullabaloo). From December 2006 rollingstone.com: Smithfield Foods actually faces a more difficult task than transmogrifying the populations of America’s thirty-two largest cities into edible packages of meat. Hogs…
Eco Samurai-Zombies
April 29, 2009Interesting view of the worldwide financial meltdown. The global economic crisis is like a Samurai movie, quips Dennis Meadows co-author of the 1970s eco-doom report, ‘Limits to Growth.’ In a Samurai film’s inevitable finale, sword wielding…
Shut The F*ck Up — And — WTF!
April 27, 2009First — Shut the fuck up! Karl Rove is not only a nasty-faced, political-turd-slinging asshole, but also a true indicator how this country has been crippled by GOP bullshit interference, which this time around could be costly and…
America’s Affliction
April 26, 2009“Just as you [Eichmann] supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations — as though you and…
Oil Foil
April 25, 2009As all the world’s current problems and entanglements become more tightly bound together in a kind of Gordian knot, one item seems to be fading from any public discourse — the end of oil. Although there’s a…
‘Quiet Sun,’ Loud Fires
April 24, 2009Another strange little twist in modern living. From the BBC this week: The observations are baffling astronomers, who are due to study new pictures of the Sun, taken from space, at the UK National Astronomy Meeting.…
Endgame — The Music Is Long Gone In The Hear-And-Now
April 23, 2009February made me shiver With every paper I’d deliver. Bad news on the doorstep; I couldn’t take one more step. — ‘American Pie,’ Don McLean In south Alabama where I was born, hunting and guns…
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…
‘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…