War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Standing on the corner Suitcase in my hand Jack is in his corset and jane is in her vest And me I’m in a rock and roll band Riding in a stutz bearcat jim Those were different times And the poets studied rules of verse And all the ladies rolled there eyes Sweet jane Sweet…
The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it. — George Carlin Some US peoples might believe they’re happy, but in reality happy is just illusion pasted from a non-revised history of this country — happy is somewhere else. (Illustration found here). This week, the Organization…
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…
What’s love got to do with it, do with it? And what’s up with all these high-profile people doing the nasty in a most-outrageous and public way, turning the manly phrase, ‘gettin’ a little,’ into a big wave of shame. Maybe one can understand the French, seemingly always ready for a little touchy-feely; shit, stuff…
In these early-morning hours, the view towards this new day is made up of apprehension and dread — my Jeep is in the shop (which makes me walking to work, though not too far) to repair a leaking valve-cover gasket and anything to do with oil pressure and valves always brings to mind financial disaster.…
WTF — Sonofabitchin’ asshole of a shithead! Researchers found that the students were able to keep their hands submerged in the icy water for longer when repeating the swear word — establishing a link between swearing and an increase in pain tolerance. They also found that the pain-numbing effect was four times more likely to…
(Illustration: ‘Burning of Colours‘ by Wojciech Kossak found here via Google Images). After more than three months, Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace‘Â is finally finished — and to reveal how good a read it’s been, I hated for the book to end, even as the once-big-lump of pages fluttered down to a few thin sheets,…
This story from last week (via Forbes): Federal safety officials are investigating a report that two planes landed at Reagan National Airport without control tower clearance because the air traffic controller was asleep. An aviation official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the incident, said the single controller — a supervisor — was…
(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…
In observation, however, it’s not flies in the ointment that really matters, but worms in the can, which once opened, spews forth something way ugly, slimy and gross. And this little adventure now ongoing in Libya has all the makings of one nasty can. Hillary Clinton begs to differ: As international forces launched attacks against…