War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
“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…
“President George W. Bush’s paranoid megalomania is so rampant that close friends and supporters worry about the man’s sanity and fear he has lost his tenuous grip on reality.” Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â…
Shit floats! Or does it if ten pounds is ass-pressed into a five-pound bag? Last week, in order to flame the burning fires and keep the killing shit flowing, Secretary of State Condi Rice and Defense Secretary Bob Gates made trips to the Mid East to chat up Decider George’s plan for a $43 billion…
We here at Compatible Creatures have always much-enjoyed the literary technique of alliteration. Maybe too often. However, the device does carry a salient ring; words slip off the tongue, sometimes without passing lips and produce a fluid, distinct sound even in the mind: Alliteration is also known as “head rhyme.” As in title to this…
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:…
An unraveling continues for Decider George and his henchmen, or cronies, or in some instances, his sidekicks. Just about every day some cursed scandal flops its head, opens up and spews out some really, really gosh-awful dung. Akin, maybe, to the world-at large peeling away the layers of an onion, but instead of finding�the heart…