War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
A crutch retort from the unvaccinated crazies got snatched away this Monday morning: ‘The Food and Drug Administration has formally approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The widely anticipated decision replaces the emergency use authorization granted by the agency last December.‘ No excuses now says Joe Biden: In the stream of events, this supposedly is a major…
Contradiction and lack of any kind of self-awareness is a mainstay of being an idiot Republican nowadays, even if death is on the line: If DeathSantis is not aware, maybe he should be instructed — sarcasm a must from Andy Borowitz at The New Yorker yesterday: TALLAHASSEE (The Borowitz Report) — A group of Florida’s…
Latest installments of the Afghan-disaster chronicles this Friday afternoon, and how fast the week when shit happens. A cascade of events, going from reality to denial. One note of the extreme measures of getting to the airport — via the Guardian‘s live blog this afternoon: The Pentagon said on Friday that the US used three…
(Illustration: ‘Pokrytectvo‘ (The Hypocrisy), by Slovakian artist Rudolf Rabatin, and found here). The biggest obstacle right now in getting any kind of a handle on COVID is the nasty and ignorant pushback from MAGA hatters and other nit-twit assholes fighting science and common sense. A real shitty horror is the massive hypocrisy from the upper…
Some news be good today: Rescuers on Tuesday pulled 16 people out alive from rubble in Brefèt, a town in Les Cayes in the Southern department, three days after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the area, according to Haiti’s Civil Protection agency. The newest latest Axios/Ipsos poll shows most Americans might be near-sane: Two-thirds (64-percent) support…
As this Tuesday morning is a nasty news day already — between Afghanistan and COVID the shit’s in the fire. And to somewhat lessen the shit-fall, a post of mystery for all of us living on this planet in a webbed, multi-faceted conundrum of real-time crazy — -Enigma, and “Return to Innocence” of the imagination:…
Afghanistan continues to boil across the news this Monday morning with Kabul a centerpiece of horror, especially at the airport as thousands seek an exit from a country going to Taliban-shit in a wire basket — real-life scenes so bad images are juxtaposed onto a fictional zombie movie: As the Taliban established its full-fledged reign…
Quick pace of the end game was astonishing — banner headlines at news outlets this Sunday afternoon: ‘Afghan Government Falls‘ (CNN); ‘Afghanistan Falls To Taliban‘ (The Washington Post); ‘Taliban Seize Afghanistan; US Scrambles To Evacuate Americans‘ (The New York Times); you get the point. On the ground, a dreadful crisis mode — via Aljazeera a…
In the wake of shitty domestic American fanfare — COVID surges thanks to Republican hardcore hardheadedness — the sad, shame of Afghanistan continues to unfold badly, an image of a country shattering like glass when struck with a huge, craggy rock — 20 years and we end with a terrible tale of America abroad. Today…
Environmental news seems to pop up in the afternoons lately, and today was no exception — hot records melting in the heat: According to data released today by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, last month was not only the hottest July, but also ‘earned the unenviable distinction as the world’s hottest month ever recorded,’…
