War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Either resigned to fate, or highly naive: Rebecca Sparks, who works at the town’s Barber Shop, says she’s not nervous: “I believe they’d tell us if there was a problem.” Ugly business, nuclear power. Near the top of a long list of really dumb-ass things mankind has done over the ages, the splitting of the…
The Gulf of Mexico: Seen from space, seemingly shimmering in shades of 3-D-green-and-blue, looking so fertile, sprawled open like a priceless pearl floating carefree in that proverbial oyster bed of life — a most-wondrous sight of nature. (Illustration found here). Yeah, well, not so fast there Juan Ponce de Leon: One might want to place…
(Illustration found here). Underwear bomber or not… Airplane toilets were the center of fright on Sunday in two separate incidents on a couple of US flights when passengers and crew got spooked by too much activity in-and-out of the loo. In this age of terror, locking lips in a airborne toilet can be dangerous. From…
Yesterday — Friday — was World Humanitarian Day. I had no idea. Of course, I also had no idea last Tuesday was the 34th anniversary of Elvis’ death, until it was ludicrously brought to my attention by one Miss Mickie Bachmann. Sad state of affairs — the human suffering currently rocking some parts of the…
Even as quick downloads of extreme weather have become the ‘new normal‘ in the US — baseball-size hail yesterday in Nebraska, and drought conditions have spread to 12 percent of the country — and even as more reports come about global warming, any kind of fix is near-about impossible. A major problem is the blow-hole…
Even as this debt ceiling fiasco flails about, slapping everybody in the face with its immature, self-centered, politically-charged dramatics, the planet earth itself is rapidly reaching its own ceiling, which once breached will make every-fuckin’-body forget all that fiscal brouhaha. Despite climate change being way-more dangerous than a bull-on-crack in a china shop, way-more perilous…
Sitting here along California’s northern coast on a quiet Tuesday morning — the first day of summer — the world’s largest ocean continues its massive movement a couple of miles away, and even way out there in the darkness of the Pacific, the growing danger of climate change is rippling, creating a much-more shitty future…
“I’m sorry, please forgive me. I kept telling you, Jerry — all of you — get ready, build a shelter. Forget the card parties and the barbecues and make the admission to yourself that the worst was possible. But you didn’t want to listen, Jerry. To build a shelter was to admit to the kind…
“There is a distance, a veil between us.” — ‘All Quiet On The Western Front,’ Erich Maria Remarque (Illustration found here). War as waged nowadays — slipshod and way-unnecessary — kills in ways way-beyond the flesh. The US has destroyed a certain of segment of its population, a big chunk, in waging nasty, cruel and…
As the so-called ‘no-fly’ war in Libya enters it fourth day, the BBC reports early this morning an US two-seater F-15 jet has crashed, and though the story doesn’t say if the aircraft was brought down by hostile or not, one pilot is okay, while the second is being sought. The Libyan intervention shatters that…
