True Liar
July 8, 2008Hats off to the most-excellent news site, thinkprogress.org for noting yesterday of Decider George’s blatant use of the most-forked of tongues. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blurted out some heavy words to a meeting of…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Iraq Outbound
July 6, 2008One of our most-favorite of Iraq peoples is the Shia cleric Moqtada al Sadr. Beyond looking like a way-sedated Jack Black with a beard, Moqtada carries enormous political clout, and also has the armed capability…
Celebrate the Horror
July 4, 2008Celebrate the horror of what US children are doing this holiday: Miller ran with the Marines he was with to the scene of the attack. “As I ran I saw human pieces…a skull cap with…
Legacy of the George: ‘Two + two = five’
July 2, 2008A category here at Compatible Creatures is Orwellian — a sort which in recent days seems to aptly fit. The word’s very image represents a malignant, manipulative and repressive entity in a position of power,…
Oops
June 30, 2008The war in Iraq is a horror in which no US citizen is immune. In a well-presented op/ed in the Los Angeles Times last week, Cy Bolton, a former TV news anchor and military affairs…
Wrong Assumptions
June 29, 2008So Decider George wants a little history, huh? He thinks the future will look more kindly on his tortured ass than folks do nowadays. Wrong! Never assume! It Makes An Ass Out of You and…
Asshole! Into a Looking Glass
June 27, 2008Vice President Dufus Dick Cheney is way-more than an asshole, more a liar, thoughtless and corrupt and yesterday a bit of this horror came out in spades. Dufus Dick’s chief-of-ass-scratch, David Addington, paid a subpoeanaed…
Fan belts and Alternators
June 26, 2008Any idiot general worth his star should have seen this coming. Although a few military types did pipe up, they were shouted down by Decider George and his warrior-in-camp, Damn-Dumb Don Rumsfeld. Now it’s broken-back,…
‘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…
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…