‘Walk That Back’
May 6, 2009Â I told him I was against [the atomic bomb] on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
The ‘Very’ Mushroom
May 5, 2009All the worries about swine flu, the ecomony or even global warming could be put to rest with this little unsettling  problem: General James Jones said Pakistan’s army had repeatedly told him the stockpile was…
Tartuffery
May 3, 2009Why the US talks out the ass. Churchgoing makes one a much-nicer person: More than half of people who attend services at least once a week — 54 percent — said the use of torture against…
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,…
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.…