War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Although Decider George’s horrifying time as chief asshole still has another year to run, all evidence of the lies, the backstabbing and dirty-tricks will apparently end up as recycled bits of confetti: Federal spending on paper shredding has increased more than 600 percent since he took office. In 2000, the feds spent $452.807 to make…
The president’s approval rating in the poll, conducted Dec. 6 through Sunday by Opinion Research Corporation, was 32 percent, tying his all-time low rating from June. Sixty-six percent disapproved of how Bush is handling his job, the poll found, about equal to the 65 percent early last month. Only 15 percent said they approved “strongly”…
“I’d really like to have him (Michael Chertoff) spend some time with us telling us why he thinks you’re qualified for the job, because based on the resume I don’t think you are.” — Sen. George Voinovich during confirmation hearings for Julie Myers, 9/15/05 Meyers was never confirmed by the full Senate for directorship of…
An interesting item, the lede from Inter Press News Service, written by Dahr Jamail: “Iraq war veterans now stationed at a base here say that morale among US soldiers in the country is so poor, many are simply parking their Humvees and pretending to be on patrol, a practice dubbed ‘search and avoid’ missions.” Jamail’s…
Fifty years ago today our world was way-way smaller. We here at Compatible Creatures were smaller: Only eight-years-old. Howdy Doody, the puppet. Lee Marvin as a TV detective and those Pall Mall commericals ending with…”outstanding! And they are mild.” And now fifty years later, our world is even-more smaller. We, however, are way-way grown. In…
Sweeping eyes and ears across the vast picture of the planet immediately conjures up Marven Gaye’s captivating, double-question lyrics easily and melodically-heard in the brain: “What’s Goin’ On? … What’s Goin’ On?†Quick knowledge comes faster and faster. Technology has indeed made the world seem smaller and closer, but really all it has produced is…
Hard-work at quick greed. Schemes without any authentic reason for existence, other than to apparently put the pinch on unsuspecting people, have been around since times immemorial. We here at Compatible Creatures have always felt the term, “times immemorial,” as kind of boorish, but actually in this sense it works: The phrase comes from old…
Mankind has a combination fault present in the genes of everyone since the beginning: Either desire to quickly blame someone, or present a false cloak — a tendency toward the wide-mouthed defect of hypocrisy. Bibical Adam blamed Eve, she in turn blamed the snake. They knew, however, the lure of the devil/snake gripped them both:…
One of the pop-up phrases floating up through the ether nowadays is “exit strategy,” which means just how are we supposed to get out of this complete and total mess. Custer didn’t have one at the Little Big Horn. The Vietnam conflict didn’t have one. And now Decider George doesn’t have one either, not for…
Just as summer follows spring, fall before winter, the blues of June seem to wreck reciprocity upon the very gray matters that surround us all. June brides eventually compromise their principles and become the dread we fear. More to come… You know, we’re so freaking’ blue we can’t finish this freakin’ post.