War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Watching daylight turn into rain, there comes a feeling that what is perceived as reality is just noise to a lot of people, creating a blip in the mojo, a trip in the ether, and forcing disaster onto the multitude. In casual observation, the statement, ‘fish need water,’ requires no explanation, either for it’s actual-factual…
(Note: This is a re-post of mine from three years ago, and with an end of the year coming again, appropriate. The original piece appeared here on Dec. 30, 2007. And yes, indeed, 2008 was really one for the books, a watershed year). Near forty years ago was 1968. A very big, long year. Life-altering…
This evening 30 years ago, John Lennon was shot dead — a shock end to an era. In this an iconic anniversary for an icon, a lot of media attention will focus on Lennon’s years as a Beatle, but at the time of his death, he stood alone, a solo musical performer, and, to the…
One of the most compelling, thought-provoking and candid assessments on the state of the planet came this week from a Native American educator, who bares the reality of both history and the terror of nowadays. A great blight on US peoples is the fuzzy, glossed-over and near-lies concerning this country’s history — the rape of…
Hope is a dim bulb for “CopenCun” — so nicknamed the UN climate summit which begins Monday in Cancún, Mexico — in that maybe some of the agreements wished-for during last year’s Copenhagen confluence disaster would be finalized, or even discussed again. Don’t bet the farm. (Illustration found here). As the chief UN official on…
This a photograph taken via cell phone near Willits, located in California’s Mendocino County, and e-mailed to me. Cloud formations are always inspiring, but this shot is oddly fascinating with an intriguing, pleading image for reconciliation of harmony. More than cool. And, this the last stanza of Percy Shelley’s The Cloud I am the daughter…
(Illustration found here). Another dire study on the state of nowadays. Although climate change, peak oil and all the assorted ugliness associated with both have been flashed around the news wire for months, if not years, nothing appears to be in the real/actual works to handle the mess — one little peak of light is…
In just a few words, the current plight of mankind: “It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.†— Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe Despite some scientists saying humanity will take true…
“But February made me shiver With every paper I’d deliver. Bad news on the doorstep; I couldn’t take one more step. — ‘American Pie,’ Don McLean Surfing Internet news sites can be overly-depressing. Any kind of news nowadays is depressing — beware of those bearing glad tidings, they either don’t want to upset you, or…
War-making equipment down through history has on many occasions been transferred to civilian uses, some of these shifts have been bad, some good and some creepy-dangerous. George Orwell would blow chunks nowadays at the direction military technology is taking, making an eye in the sky a normal every-day part of modern life. (Illustration found here).…
