War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
“Suicide is painless,” and yes indeed it does bring on many changes, but with the game of life hard to play, since it’s gonna be lost anyway, to win is to cheat, lay it down before gettin’ beat… Paraphrasing a description of a definite blowback from two ugly wars grinding this country into dust. (Illustration…
Lists of top good and bad appear near or at the end of each year, and usually bear witness to how crappy things are, or how how even-more crappy things are. This week, The Buffalo Beast presented a list of the 50 most-loathsome people in America for 2008 — and it doesn’t leave out President…
Another nail in the coffin of the earth. Climate change offered by human-induced CO2 discharges are literally sucking the life out of our oceans. (Illustration found here). In a report issued today, the horror of man-made CO2 will quickly make the world’s oceans more acidic and therefore unable to bear life. From the New York…
If suddenly a world-wide hate for the arts: A lot of wealthy assholes would be out of work. The greed of spotlight and treasure extends to just about everyone. From the UK’s Telegraph on profits from the acclaimed “Slumdog Millionaire“: (h/t Think Progress) But the reality of life for Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail is…
In an uncertain age, President-Elect Obama’s inauguration Tuesday is a security nightmare — more than three million people expected to attend, creating an armed camp around the US capitol. (Illustration found here). A big, frightful pause in Obama’s security is the obnoxious, cadaverous head of the obnoxious Homeland Security apparatus, Michael Chertoff, who really could…
See a list thrown up there in wide-open spaces. Think Progress has an incredible serial-names roll call of Decider George’s minions — caretakers as in Sarah Palin — during the past eight gruesome years. Read it here.
As Decider George gets ready to leave, there’s nothing better than to send his ass flying out the door. Although still in jail, Iraqi shoe bomber Muntadhar al-Zeidi turned 30 on Thursday: “Muntadhar was in a good shape … and his morale was high. Yesterday was his birthday and some patriotic officers there organized a…
Another brick in the wall. The DOD’s IG says the DOD did nothing illegal in the DOD’s TV news military analysts program: But in the new report, the inspector general’s office, noting the absence of a clear legal definition of propaganda, said there was an “insufficient basis†to conclude that the program had violated laws…
Andrew Wyeth, one of greats in the art world of precise realism, died today at the age of 91. (Illustration of Wyeth’s ‘Christina’s World‘ found here). On the artwork above, from the New York Times obit story this morning: One picture encapsulated his fame. “Christina’s World†became an American icon like Grant Wood’s “American Gothic, 
One last jab at Decider George’s sad and nearly-innocuous good-bye address last night, an useless endeavor if there’s ever been one, and with nearly 70 percent of US peoples wanting him gone — good, good-bye to eight years of some real-bad doo-doo. A lot commentators reflected it was Decider George’s best speech — because it…