War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Joe Biden’s speech last night to a joint session of Congress was a way-apparent success and a BFD — one of those orations that not only sits well in the mind, but had enough bite to float in the memory for awhile. Not only the image of two females behind him on the dias, but…
Once again the floating skirt-tails of the T-Rump saga darkened another dim-bulb in the continuing tale of crime, corruption, and crass behavior — New York federal agents executed a search warrant this morning at the home and office of muckraker extraordinaire, Rudy Giuliani, as the noose tightens on high misdeeds and low intelligence. Rudy is…
America right now is in a grip of not only a health-related pandemic, but also a mental-phyical epidemic of pure crazy-lying and bullshit by nearly half of the population — Republicans aren’t really doing anything to help the country, but are repeatedly trying to tear it down. A baffling situation to me when a large…
Just weeks following his election in 2008, President Obama did a couple of things that both pissed me off and let me down — one was naming Tim Geithner as treasury secretary (and later Larry Summers as head of the National Economic Council), idiot assholes that shit on any ‘change‘ anyone could ever believe in…
Blowback-arrests off the Jan 6 insurrection/riot never ends even with an attempted love match: Details via CNN this afternoon: The Justice Department has charged a Capitol rioter who was turned in by someone he matched with on the dating app Bumble, after he bragged about his exploits on January 6. According to court documents, one…
A most-wonderful surpise! Despite the presented evidence, I wasn’t sure if the jury would act in a humane fashion and find the asshole guilty of murdering George Floyd last May. Top-notch, best encapsulation came from the White House where Joe Biden and Kamala Harris watched the unfolding jury return: ‘“A collective exhale. From everyone ……
In the wake of COVID surging in the US, way-rightwing Republicans starting a white supremacist caucus, and mass shootings occurring all-the-time all over, there’s news the T-Rump might have lost some weight and maybe planning to run for president again in 2024. I ask you, what’s the shittiest scenario there, after the entire dying part?…
America woke up this morning to another freaking mass shooting — this one late last night in Indiana (CBS): A 19-year-old gunman opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis late Thursday night, killing eight people before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said. Police identified the suspect as Brandon Scott Hole, a former FedEx…
(Illustration: ‘Landscape of Change,’ waterolor by Jill Pelto, and found here). Along with COVID killing people all across the planet (according to John Hopikins University, as of this afternoon, 563,375 Americans have died, 2,951,968 worldwide), the pandemic will cause problems well into the future, which will have treacherous effects on humankind’s ability to function in…
Another school shooting today and with gun action again a part of American folklore, the perplexity of keeping account of the action is understandable: First, and unrelated this afternoon, a school shooting in Knoxville, Tenn. (ABC News): Police faced gunfire as they responded to reports of a possible gunman at a Tennessee high school Monday,…
