‘Another Bush’
January 24, 2009In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, would any leader react like George Jr., coming forth with incoherent strategy and bluster, only to create a far more disastrous conditional aftermath? History does have a fond way…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Afghan Afar Up Close
January 24, 2009One building agenda-item in President Obama’s gnarly smorgasbord of agenda-items is the dangerous, weird-ass situation in Afghanistan. Despite new supply routes to bypass nasty Pakistan, the US presence in country is about to strike another,…
Day One — Night
January 20, 2009All day long President Obama played out across the airwaves — I listened to NPR at work, just about every aspect of the inauguration proceedings analyized, and little snippets caught between customers were dreary and…
Day One
January 20, 2009This morning is historic — an end of nightmares and bad daydreams, an inauguration of optimism, or at the very least, minimizing the impact-reality of those true vapor visions. (Illustration of “Joy of New Beginnings”…
Armed Inauguration
January 18, 2009In an uncertain age, President-Elect Obama’s inauguration Tuesday is a security nightmare — more than three million people expected to attend, creating an armed camp around the US capitol. (Illustration found here). A big, frightful…
List of Lists
January 17, 2009See a list thrown up there in wide-open spaces. Think Progress has an incredible serial-names roll call of Decider George’s minions — caretakers as in Sarah Palin — during the past eight gruesome years. Read…
Birthday Shoe
January 17, 2009As Decider George gets ready to leave, there’s nothing better than to send his ass flying out the door. Although still in jail, Iraqi shoe bomber Muntadhar al-Zeidi turned 30 on Thursday: “Muntadhar was in…
Not Done It Pundit
January 16, 2009Another brick in the wall. The DOD’s IG says the DOD did nothing illegal in the DOD’s TV news military analysts program: But in the new report, the inspector general’s office, noting the absence of…
Death of Raw Realism
January 16, 2009Andrew Wyeth, one of greats in the art world of precise realism, died today at the age of 91. (Illustration of Wyeth’s ‘Christina’s World‘ found here). On the artwork above, from the New York Times…
‘Flat’ Finish
January 16, 2009One last jab at Decider George’s sad and nearly-innocuous good-bye address last night, an useless endeavor if there’s ever been one, and with nearly 70 percent of US peoples wanting him gone — good, good-bye…