War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Is this a back-home by-product of a horrifying nightmare called Afghanistan? An ‘award winning’ veteran loses his shit: An enraged Seymour man shot his mother and tried to shoot his father Tuesday night after the couple refused to acknowledge their son as the reincarnated Jesus, Webster County Sheriff Roye Cole said. Cole said one mystery…
And it really did come to this: “Oh my God. I’m back. I’m home. All the time, it was… We finally really did it. You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you!” Ah, George Taylor, what the shit are you babbling about? And what did ‘we‘ finally do? In the immediate foam of the…
In the last few years, nuclear war and nuclear weapons has taken somewhat of a back seat to more conventional forms of killing (AK-47s, tanks, etc.) and even to the mega-simple (IEDs), but earlier this month the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science opened up the old Cold War can…
One of the most amazing items within the horror of the Tucson shooting this past weekend is the abundance of firearms found in the US and how a whole, dumb-ass shitload of people think it’s their absolute right to carry one around, and, use it if necessary. Guns are part of the American heritage —…
Even as the news of the world continues to play out, the shooting last Saturday in Tucson keeps it fingers tight on my brain. Involved within this tragedy is a mural of how the US has found itself in an intractable vise of how to wiggle out of this horror — guns and nasty-mouthed assholes…
In the wake of Saturday’s Tucson shooting, it’s hard to find any kind of humor in the horror that’s been coming from the right side of the political aisle the last couple of years — the Safeway slaughter an incident indicating a mangled/reversed ‘put your action where your mouth is‘ kind of event. When you…
Despite a time when shit events occur fairly often, a real big piece of shit can still make make an impact. An incident of such monstrous audacity can create a blip on the timeline — the killing yesterday of six people, and the wounding of 14 others, including US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (at left, on…
In a short aftermath of the shooting incident in Tucson, Ariz., this morning, one blurb cut through the bullshit. Pima County sheriff, Clarence W. Dupnik, as quoted by the New York Times: “The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And unfortunately, I think Arizona has become…
‘Cause suicide is painless it brings on many changes and I can take or leave it if I please. …and you can do the same thing if you choose. — Johnny Mandel, (M*A*S*H lyrics) (Illustration found here). The suicide rate for the US military is staggering. From CBS News last Friday: The Army’s suicide rate is…
Did we neglect to mention John Boehner is an “asshat”? In a trainwreck of an election yesterday, it was fairly-well demonstrated there’s a shitload of asshats in the US. And this a snapshot of why we’re in the toilet. Chris Matthews to Michelle Bachmann: “Congresswoman Bachmann — are you hypnotized tonight? Has someone hypnotized you?…