War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
One major gripe I’ve got against the New York Times‘ Frank Rich: He doesn’t publish enough. Rich weaves theater into politics and for the most part, at least this past year, has threaded together the best observations on the DC goings-on — He continually nails Decider George. This evening another good, insightful ditty, commenting the…
Karl and George: Still up to no good. Now they’re on an exploding PR exit-strategy bandwagon to try and purify Decider George’s putrid near-eight years in office. (Illustration found here). In the closing days of a crime scene government that’s been without doubt the most corrupt and incompetent in US history, not to mention one…
One of the most indiscriminate and terrifying weapons in humanity’s vast arsenal, among a long, long list of terrifying instruments, are cluster bombs. Situated within the category of dumb bombs, or those just dropped from aircraft without any specific target, gravity-fed, these little sonofabitches have an enormous killing zone — cats, dogs, children, women, old…
Decider George has become worse than useless. The little shithead is in Peru this weekend waxing “a little nostalgic” for the hallucinogenic heady days of shock and awe, mission accomplished, and ‘bring ’em on’ — certainly not for the reality of those episodes of horror. Events seem to have accelerated the past few weeks. Terror…
Even here in the far reaches of northern California, life appears as a dilemma. If one ponders the entangled proceedings bursting at the seams, many questions arise in which the answer lies within the question itself, where the reply means more than the words — A horse goes into a bar, bartender asks, ‘Why the…
Rhetoric dreams fade fast when confronted with political reality. Despite President-Elect Obama calling for easy, unconditional talks with just about everybody, and for quickly getting US GIs out of Iraq, reality bites the ass of expectations. How quickly should troops leave, however, is the main concern, especially with the Pentagon. Obama’s stance on Iran, however,…
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…
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…
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:…
Another example of Decider George/GOP incompetence. Hurricane Ike tore across the Texas coast in September and flattened everything, and despite the Katrina experience, the US federal government is still too arrogant to help the helpless. In this day and age, natural disaster can be more than just a storm. Caught between a rock and a…