War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration in oil by Frank Quinn of Walpole, MA, can be found here). Despite the ongoing and apparently never-ending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US public for the first time in years, favor the military a more positive view. From yesterday’s Christian Science Monitor: While the military continues to rate highly in public opinion…
Despite the joy, a new CNN poll has exposed a scared, anxious public still worried about which direction this ship of state is headed, a bit concerned the course might be plotted toward an ill-fated collision. After an hour’s delay, the RMS Titanic departed Queenstown, Ireland, about 1:30 in the afternoon, April 11, 1912, bound…
War is chaos — hence the word ‘war‘ can be traced back to the Indo-European root, ‘wers,’ which is to confuse, mix up. Funny, another form derived from the same Indo-European root word had developed into a word denoting a more benign kind of mixture, Old High German, ‘wurst,’ meaning “sausage.†In a flurry of…
Five days after the massive voter surge, President-Elect Obama is treading carefully on all kinds of foreign policy entanglements that have come up, and he’s displayed a sense of you can’t rush good shit in to replace some real bad shit. Despite whatever the voters in the US said last Tuesday, the world remains one…
What’s this with US bombs and Afghan weddings? These two kids, small members of an Afghan wedding party bombed to bits by US aircraft in July 2002, killing 20 to 30 people (Illustration found here), are a horrifyingly sad picture of what’s been accomplished in a war that’s now dragged on for more than seven…
Amazing and nearly dreamlike. (Illustration of the new US First Family found here). As a child of the US deep South (now living in California), what Barack Obama pulled off yesterday is nothing short of incredible — and a damn-long-time coming. Who would have thought such a thing just a decade or so ago. Many…
The entire story is pretty-much incomprehensible, this so-called financial crisis currently tormenting the entire planet. No one seems to know anything about what to do and Alan Greenspan, that great monetary wizard, blubbered last week he was shocked at the whole affair, as if he couldn’t see it coming a mile away. Greenspan: Those of…
Lurching to a finish, Decider George will leave the next president a foreign policy situation worse-than a can of big, ugly worms. This particular can, however, is way-different, thus making the worms way-different — they’ve been trip wired, booby trapped, apt to explode when touched a certain way. And they’re really, really slimy. Worm One:…
Shipping in and out of the Red Sea is undergoing some old-time, real-violent incidents with pirates, so much so there seems to be a crisis in an ability to handle it. Information Dissemination, the best site for all things Naval, made note today on another freighter attacked by pirates as it tried to navigate through…
The real race problem in the US — economics. And despite Booker T. Washington‘s approach, African-Americans are getting the short-end of the paycheck stick. An UN Report today: Levels of economic disparity in major US cities, including New York and Washington DC, are comparable to those of African cities, a United Nations report has concluded.…