War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
“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 your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit the world — we find that…
As 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 lot of deniers out there — especially the current GOP crowd of “Drill, drill, drill” — more than 95 percent…
Another 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. The Sun normally undergoes an 11-year cycle of activity. At its peak, it has a tumultuous boiling atmosphere that spits…
February 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 were part of the fabric of the so-called life, whether one lived on a farm or not. My daddy gave me…
I 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 be indicted for being techno-assholes!
Hack 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 its Big Brother-style capacities. It can, for example, turn on the camera and audio-recording functions of an infected computer, enabling…
Bow-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 a trademark for excellence in news gathering — trench journalists. Despite looking urbane and all-sophisticated up with a bow tie,…
This 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 blubbering and Rick-Santelli rants about the financial industry. “This is a blue-collar recession, just like we saw in ’81,” said…
News 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 a slick guy and the slick comes from within — Josh Marshall at TPM hit the eye-tooth right on the…
A 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 adults, have been consuming growing volumes of candy, from Mary Janes and Tootsie Rolls to Gummy Bears and cheap chocolates,…