War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
One of the most indiscriminate and terrifying weapons in humanity’s vast arsenal, among a long, long list of terrifying instruments, are cluster bombs. Situated within the category of dumb bombs, or those just dropped from aircraft without any specific target, gravity-fed, these little sonofabitches have an enormous killing zone — cats, dogs, children, women, old…
Early in the morning, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, a line was drawn deeply, quickly in the sand of life, altering the balance, forever loosing the strings of harmony. Oh, shut the shit up, give it a rest! Flowering words with a poetic Far-Eastern bent, creating a myth of of unmitigated proportions and uncalled-for phrases of…
Nearly two years ago, the current lame-duck White House bunch were put on notice the financial system was ready to collapse, ready to fold-up more like a chair sitting a fat-ass banker than a house of cards. Instead of creating a stop-gap, Decider George opened the flood gates even further. From CNN this morning: The…
In the last few years there’s been a lot comparisons between the current Iraqi adventure and the Vietnam war, two towering blunders in US foreign policy, not to mention the immeasurable loss of life and the cataclysm in the social conscience of a nation. Iraq is not Vietnam — or is it? (Illustration found here).…
Mark Twain hit the real bird squarely on the truth’s head: “Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for — annually, not oftener — if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the…
Decider George is like a rotten, aching and throbbing tooth, one of the them backside, big-old molars, one that can’t be worked on or even pulled, sitting there in the headcase, making life even more miserable with each countdown-passing second. Yesterday, the outgoing commander-in-chief told a crowd of people most-likely destined again for the Islamic…
Big Al and Decider George at show-and-tell. Four years ago near to the day: “There’s a lot we don’t know about his actions as White House counsel and his advice to the president,†said Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy of the Federation of American Scientists. “What we do know is rather…
Delusion is the child of ‘What, Me Worry?’ Especially if one doesn’t like homework and just goes with a gut instinct. In a pre-recorded interview broadcast Sunday on a Japanese television network, Decider George blubbered through his lying, delusional teeth he was very pleased with how the Iraqi war has been handled and how wonderful…
Decider George has become worse than useless. The little shithead is in Peru this weekend waxing “a little nostalgic” for the hallucinogenic heady days of shock and awe, mission accomplished, and ‘bring ’em on’ — certainly not for the reality of those episodes of horror. Events seem to have accelerated the past few weeks. Terror…
A reunion of history sipping ice tea and savoring the memories. Journalism became a celebrity job in the mid 1970s, surging upward an already-emerging elite, near-aristocratic class of news people, from the copy desk, reporters, editors, to the executive suites, and this mechanism of modern media received its biggest boost from a “two-bit burglary.” (Illustration…