War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
An understated environmental report today from the UK, calling climate change the biggest global-health threat of the 21st century. Lead author of the report Professor Anthony Costello: “The big message of this report is that climate change is a health issue affecting billions of people, not just an environmental issue about polar bears and deforestation. The…
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! — Lewis Carroll (Illustration found here). A surreal snapshot of a horrifying, nonsensical moment in time: The Iraqi invasion just might end up being the greatest man-made disaster in all of human history. Lewis Carroll created some wild shit with his wacked-crazy use of disambiguation — meaning…
 Less than 20 percent of  US peoples even like the guy, but Dick Cheney has nothing else to do but grimace in public, and apparently, will  continue to grimace: “For a while there was this talk out there that we ought to cut these guys some slack and that they shouldn’t be criticized in the early…
 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 see our country be the first to use such a weapon. — Dwight Eisenhower, July, 1945 History has shown Harry…
All 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 “under control”, but “this is very much an ongoing topic”. … “If Pakistan doesn’t continue in the direction that it…
Why 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 suspected terrorists is “often” or “sometimes” justified. Only 42 percent of people who “seldom or never” go to services agreed,…
“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, and in doing so, told the ghost of Ronald Reagon to go flush himself. During an impromtu question-and-answer session at Stanford:…
Toxic 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 produce three times more excrement than human beings do. The 500,000 pigs at a single Smithfield subsidiary in Utah generate…
Interesting 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 hero and villain clash in a flurry of steel. The two halt and glower at each other before one, always…
First — 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 maybe fatal. Via Raw Story: Writing in a column in the Wall Street Journal in February, Rove attacked Democrats for…