War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Someone asked why I invited Jon Stewart to be the first guest on the Journal’s premiere in 2007. “Because Mark Twain isn’t available,” I answered. I was serious. Like Twain, Stewart has proven that truth is more digestible when it’s marinated in humor. –Â Bill Moyers A sad state of journalism when its top program and…
Practiced are my sins, Never gonna let me win, aw huh,.. Under everything, just another human being, aw huh,.. Yeh, I don’t wanna hurt, there’s so much in this world To make me bleed. — “Just Breathe,” Pearl Jam Emotion has always seemed to be Pearl Jam’s musical cornerstone, with the mega-sorrowful, gravel-like voice of…
US peoples are a resilient breed. The great American Dream still lives, but only within a nightmare of sleepless fantasy. James Truslow Adams coined the phrase, American Dream, in his 1931 book, The Epic of America: “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity…
A whole shitload of US peoples have nothing between their ears, except maybe emotions placed there by an incompetent, corrupt media and in reality, are like dumb-ass sheep responding to the most-lowest of hysteria. This past week is a shameful example. Even as climate change is wrecking havoc upon the US — unimaginable flooding along…
Since 9/11, social media has become today’s platform for expressing news and views. A sign on Facebook aptly summed President Obama’s political rejoinder to Republican provocateur Donald Trump: “Sorry it took me so long to get you a copy of my birth certificate. I was too busy killing Osama bin Laden.” Meanwhile, on Twitter, a…
Never in US political memory has the discourse become so full of one-sided hate and animosity toward the unwashed masses, i.e., the poor and other meaningless pieces of considered flotsam supposedly throttling the rich from getting even-more richer — Republicans are ranting against humanity. And the shocker is that these GOP claptrap assholes appear not…
(Illustration found here via Google Images). As the entire world appears to be going full-steam bat-shit insane, the announcement yesterday of the death of movie icon Elizabeth Taylor most-oddly gives life a more normal feel to it, a reassuring sense that time is still the same, that people grow, mature, and then die. Taylor’s obit…
One giant, DUH! From Media Matters: Asked what most viewers and observers of Fox News would be surprised to learn about the controversial cable channel, a former insider from the world of Rupert Murdoch was quick with a response: “I don’t think people would believe it’s as concocted as it is; that stuff is just…
The CIA along with all the US intelligence agencies were caught with their panties down on Tunisia and Egypt: “These events should not have come upon us with the surprise that they did,†the committee‘s chairwoman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, said in an interview. “There should have been much more warning†of the revolts…
From Aljazeera English, a most-interesting tone concerning the most-immediate future of Hosni Mubarak: Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, said: “It is clear that President Mubarak is in denial over his legacy. “Until Friday we are probably going to watch a major escalation of tension in events both between the demonstrators on the one…