War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Dude, lose the car. From USATodayTravel: University of Iowa sophomore Jimmy Novak didn’t let $3.50-a-gallon gasoline prices keep him from making a spring break pilgrimage to Daytona Beach, Fla., with his fraternity brothers last weekend. But the prospect of $50 fill-ups did alter his behavior: “We’re squeezing five people in a car to save money…
From Aljazeera English: A second explosion rocked Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, sending a plume of smoke into the air and touching off fresh concerns of radioactive leak in the quake and tsunami-hit country. The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday the reactor has not been damaged. In the same report, more…
A good, quick guide for keeping track; from CNNMoney: The spike in oil last week could translate to an increase in gas prices of 37 cents per gallon in the coming weeks, according Moody’s Analytics economist Chris Lafakis. He estimates that for every $1 increase in the price of oil, retail gas prices typically rise…
Rare for me to be up this early on a Saturday, yet here I am at 4 AM peeking at a world seemingly gone mad as a hatter. The hourglass is empty The horsemen are prepared The hollow men are marching The wind is softly crying… A millstone’s falling from the sky The clouds are…
In the shadow of the horrible Tucson shooting and all the political bullshit foamed up in its wake, the earth continues its wild spin into disaster. Peak oil and climate change, to use a nightmare analogy, are similar to a huge, unlimited-clipped Glock 19 firing into an unsuspecting crowd — except in this case, there…
Last year’s BP oil spill will apparently exacerbate our slide down the backside of peak oil — from Consumer Energy Report today — Further: The 220,000 barrel per day loss will be made up by importing more oil, and the loss of that oil from the market will add to the upward pressure on oil prices.…
(Note: To those few readers of this blog I hope you had a decent ‘holiday period, part one.’ I have a great hatred and loathing for anything that’s a lie — the Lottery, our current ‘terror war,’ the entire GOP, Hugh Hefner marrying for love, and among many, many other entities, ‘Christmas’ — and the…
Time, time, time is on my side, yes it is –Â “Time Is On My Side,” The Rolling Stones Wrong — time instead is on an extremely short leash. There’s a scene in the movie, “The Matrix,” where Morpheus explains to Neo the sheep-like nature of humanity: You have to understand that most of these…
From a Bill Moyers speech last week at Boston University: George Bernard Shaw once complained that journalists are seemingly unable to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. And Tuesday’s midterm elections is a bike crash bred with the end of walking-around sense, thus creating an empty vacuum between the ears of…
The title quite a mash-up, huh? A mouthful of alliterated sounds beckoning forth a bat-shit-crazy. However, if according to the US Supreme Court and corporations are indeed people — “…citizens, or associations of citizens…” — then somewhere out there is some giant, asshole of a guy with a name synonymous with hideously-cruel, insane and arrogant incompetence:…