War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Air and earth has quickly become a deadly pain in the ass. Images from TV the last few days, and the last couple of months to be more precise, has reached a seemingly movie-as-real-life scenario with scenes of carnage which once could only be depicted via CGI — the absolute waste is visually overwhelming, as…
As Joplin, Missouri, gleans through horrific wreckage, the rest of us must beware of a new life style. From Reuters: Heavy rains, deep snowfalls, monster floods and killing droughts are signs of a “new normal” of extreme U.S. weather events fueled by climate change, scientists and government planners said on Wednesday. “It’s a new normal…
As someone growing up in the US deep south, anytime there’s any mention of tornadoes gives me a deep, frightfully-shocked desire to run, run far away — even just reading about crazed funnel-clouds gives me heart ache. And once again, according to CNN: Residents in Joplin, Missouri, braced for news of fatalities Monday after a…
Here it is, another Monday and another start to another week as the US and the world moves closer and closer to some kind of cluster bomb — which by the way is still killing. Three young boys were killed and another was badly wounded on Sunday when an unexploded cluster bomb detonated in south…
Yesterday, a remarkable thing — I put $20 worth of gas in my Jeep and, lo-and-behold, the price was still the same as last week, $4.45 a gallon for regular. This is the first time in a long time the pump price has stayed steady, although still at a crazed high. And despite oil-price dumping…
By far, the biggest problem facing this good earth is climate change and the horrible consequences of humanity’s greed is right now plying its whirlwind. As I type these words in the wee hours of Monday morning, folks in Memphis, Tennessee, are trying to get a handle on a Mississippi River that’s experienced a 600…
Are we finished with Osama bin Laden, already? If the killing of the murderous shithead doesn’t change the insanity of the so-called ‘war on terror’ than the whole thing is just a media spin to give poor US peoples a last chance to chant at the flag. Is Osama’s killing a ticket out of Afghanistan,…
Taking up smoking cigarettes has got to be one of the most dumb-ass things I’ve ever done in my life — except maybe for being married twice! From AFP in honor of Kate and Bill and economics: A telltale sign of US economic recovery: the divorce rate is on the rise, after falling sharply in…
Weather horror back East is only a prelude to the coming commonplace. A tornado onslaught yesterday killed 159 people across the US south, 128 in my birth state of Alabama — a catastrophic situation which will only get worse as man-influenced climate change increases these “extreme events” to a weather-related new normal. Film of the…
In viewing climate change, every so often there comes along some aspect of that horror-in-coming that’s even more morbid, more dark-cast depressing than normal, and one of those is the impact of methane gas deposits blasting out of the Arctic permafrost (or permamelt, ha,ha,HA) thawing at an accelerating rate, beyond predictions. These methane ‘burps’ are…