War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
US peoples should hide in great-confused and frightful shame. In facing the greatest threat to humanity, maybe in all of recorded history, Americans still can’t decide whether they should give a shit or not on climate change. The latest Gallup poll revealed 53 percent of US peoples see global warming as a very or somewhat…
Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep — and, lo and behold — the price of a gallon of regular has dropped four cents to $3.95 in just two weeks. After seemingly being stuck at $3.99 a gallon for months, it was odd to see a difference in the numbers.…
Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep, the pump price still at $3.99 a gallon for regular — a fixture now at the local Union 76. Although those numbers have not moved here on California’s northern coast for at least two months, the overall gas/oil theater appears on some kind…
One real scary moment for Halloween is the overcrowding mob on hand for the party — the UN claims the population of the earth will top 7 billion on Monday, embellishing a smorgasbord of dangerous problems already facing a beleaguered planet. Despite a prognosis to the contrary: Max Singer, founder of the Hudson Institute, warned…
In recent history, one has learned to not trust a lot of information from any US government agency with a hidden/or not-so-hidden agenda — recent example is the State Department’s okay of the horrendous Keystone XL pipeline, claiming the 1,711-mile tube slated to carry peanut-butter-like toxic slop through the gut of middle America “would have…
Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep with local pump prices still the same as its been the last couple of months — $3.99 a gallon for regular. Still high, but steady, though, horrifying for some US peoples, who will spend a record $490 billion on gas by year’s end…
Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep with the pump price down now to $3.99 a gallon for regular — a dime drop since the last time we visited a gas station. In a strange setting, gas-pump prices have continued to descend, but are still way-high: Retail gasoline prices fell…
A glaring example of how long climate change has been developing, and how the warming quickens/intensifies nature. Climate Central reports a study on the migration north of Southern magnolias, among several tree species, where average temperatures some 2.7°F higher, and a growing season several weeks longer, than it was a few decades ago. Although magnolias…
Environmental disasters are nothing new, neither are financial disasters, and both are man made for the way-most part. The on-going ‘Occupy Wall Street’ demonstration, which is gaining a shitload of traction the last few days, netted 700-plus arrests yesterday when protestors tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge — the spark from New York has jumped to…
“If you don’t want it to be the most expensive year [for gasoline prices,] you’re surreptitiously rooting for an economic debacle.†— Tom Kloza of the Oil Price Information Service (via the Washington Post last week) (Illustration found here). Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of fuel in my old Jeep Comanche and still at…