Odom Told ‘Em
July 7, 2007In the continuous outpouring of flak and crap on, about, for and against the insane, horrific Iraq debacle there has been a voice, seemingly crying in the wilderness, a voice that should have been heard…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Feelin’ da ole ‘Scooter’ Itch on da Constitution Cha-Cha-Cha
July 5, 2007Day after July fourth: Malcontent and hot-under-the collar utterances against a putrid situation. On TV’s History Channel yesterday was a well-produced, though kind of cheesy look at events leading up to the US becoming a…
Dangerous Dictator Dick
June 24, 2007We here at Compatible Creatures have always much-enjoyed the literary technique of alliteration. Maybe too often. However, the device does carry a salient ring; words slip off the tongue, sometimes without passing lips and produce…
Old Soldiers Should Sometimes Shut The Hell Up
June 21, 2007When anyone attempts to compare Iraq with any other horror show, except maybe Vietnam, and then draws parallels between them should undergo a brain scan: Intelligence has leaked into the biosphere. Even from veterans who…
Hypocrite Oath 2: Pass It On
June 20, 2007Hard-work at quick greed. Schemes without any authentic reason for existence, other than to apparently put the pinch on unsuspecting people, have been around since times immemorial. We here at Compatible Creatures have always felt…
Hypocrite Oath
June 18, 2007Mankind has a combination fault present in the genes of everyone since the beginning: Either desire to quickly blame someone, or present a false cloak — a tendency toward the wide-mouthed defect of hypocrisy. Bibical…
Endgame
June 16, 2007One of the pop-up phrases floating up through the ether nowadays is “exit strategy,” which means just how are we supposed to get out of this complete and total mess. Custer didn’t have one at…
June Blues
June 14, 2007Just as summer follows spring, fall before winter, the blues of June seem to wreck reciprocity upon the very gray matters that surround us all. June brides eventually compromise their principles and become the dread…
‘Sprinting to the finish line’
June 13, 2007After a fairy-tale hero’s welcome in Albania, Decider George has come home to the reality of an administration not unlike the Titantic rushing headlong to a rendezvous with an iceberg. Unable to muster enough votes…
Jailhouse ‘Scooter’
June 5, 2007“Liar, liar, pants on fire.” This morning, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Dufus Dick Chaney’s former chief of staff, was sentenced in federal court to 30 month in prison for lying his ass off and trying…