War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Another Halloween, but slapped hard by nature — there’s a few million US people who won’t be prowling the streets tonight seeking after treats. The trick will be to crawl through Hurricane Sandy’s rubble and stay alive. Warm and appears like it’s about to rain up here along northern California’s coastline, with the operative word…
(Illustration found here). All things on this planet have just three parts: A beginning, a middle, and an end. No matter the subject, the material, or the biological make-up, the life of all things have this order of narrative, from plants, to animals, and to human peoples — no one escapes this hard-set plot, whether…
History is relative. And in this 24/7 nowadays it’s way-hard to imagine any kind of life without electrical power. Hence, last week Leon Panetta spelled it out: “Well, there’s no question that if a cyber attack, you know, crippled our power grid in this country, took down our financial systems, took down our government systems,…
President Obama ain’t pissed already: If it turns out that some of the allegations that have been made in the press are confirmed, then of course I’ll be angry,” he said. Of course, the source of that future ire stems from the indignation of a whore unpaid. Reportedly, 11 US Secret Service agents and five…
Monday morning — again. And in these way-pre dawn hours here on California’s northern coast there’s quiet and peace and a bit warmer than normal. Just from the my perch, the world appears A-Okay, but beyond this little blurb spot there’s all kind of shit going on and most of it real bad. Beyond the…
We can all sleep better now that Mitt Romney is once again the top GOP dog — slipping past the field in Arizona, and especially in the land of his birth, Michigan: ” … We didn’t win by a lot, but we won by enough and that’s all that counts.” Yes, winning is all that…
Old men, they are now — the big three of the scandal of scandals. The Washington Post blog The Reliable Source reported on a chance encounter in late January of John Dean, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., and the quick whiplash of history — this June will be…
Tis the season for the big lie. Infamous fabricator Stephen Glass is now after a lawyer’s job — off ‘Shattered Glass‘ fame, he made up stories at the New Republic during the late 1990s and was fired, displaying a major-tendency to lie at the drop of a vowel. Adam Penenberg, who outed Glass as a…
Today 70 years ago one of the landmark events of world history — the Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor — a horror-hole episode leading to a massive worldwide war which killed 2.5 percent of the planet’s inhabitants or about 60 million people. Europe had been at war for a couple…
Another thin-skinned GOP asshole caught being an asshole — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback got his panties in a bind when a high school student Tweeted that the good governor, “#heblowsalot:†Emma Sullivan, 18, was hauled into her principal’s office and ordered to write letters of apology after one of Governor Sam Brownback’s office contacted the…