‘How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes’
June 25, 2008“This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Romance Redacted
June 23, 2008James Michener’s Caravans is a good-read, romantic novel set in an exotic 1950 Afghanistan. The hero is a young, likable consulate worker with the American embassy in Kabul. The plot: He’s called on to chase…
Pisser
June 21, 2008The big, old fat “cakewalk” security agreement between the US and Iraq might be in for some very heavy lifting in the next few weeks. BAGHDAD (AFP) – An Iraqi Shiite cleric on Friday denounced…
War Criminals
June 20, 2008In the 230-plus-year history of the US, it was bound to happen. One as cynical as us might have figured it would happen before now, before communications opened up governmental processes to a more public…
Real Deal — Oil and Permanence
June 18, 2008Up comes two seemingly unrelated, underhanded, heavy-handed deals, cutting like odorous, fart-splitting flatulence across the landscape, coupling together the future of Iraq to the entrails of the US. War for oil. Old fart-head Alan Greenspan…
OPEN MOUTH — Insert feet, boots, beltbuckle, necktie, ass
June 17, 2008Life in a vacuum. If one lives in a glass house, but can’t see the outside world — creepy. From just about every angle, Decider George’s way-dangerous terms in office have been an unmitigated disaster.…
Nero Fiddles
June 16, 2008In an ugly sense of an unconscious daydream, another natural tragedy has struck the US with its leader again out to lunch, or in this case, dinner: About 36,000 Iowans were evacuated because of statewide…
OBL: Dead or Alive!
June 15, 2008In the few months left to him as king of the world, Decider George is seeking out his nemesis, the biggest bogeyman of them all — Osama bin Laden. President George W Bush has enlisted…
Deadly Dilemma: No Easy Way Out
June 14, 2008The most forgotten war in modern times has returned to the forefront with a vengeance: A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle on Saturday, killing four Marines in western Afghanistan in the deadliest…
History Heads-Up
June 10, 2008Although Decider George reportedly majored in history at Yale, we all know what he did was party. People who major in things like history, usually also like to read. Decider George is not a book-kind-of-guy.…