War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Last night, I started reading Jeffrey Archer’s ‘The Fourth Estate,’ a big-fat novel about a couple of apparent Rupert-Murdoch-kind of assholes trying to control the world, and in the words off the back cover, an “awesome tale of wealth and corruption, desire and destruction.” Well, we’ll just see how ‘awesome‘ this ‘tale‘ be — I’m…
Last Thursday, I put $20 worth of gas in my Jeep — Union-76 at $4.45 a gallon for regular, and about the norm for this particular region of northern California. One wonders when last week’s oil-price nosedive will be reflected at the pump. From liveoilprices: Brent crude oil futures for June 2011 delivery ended the…
ARTLESS: Visual art has always been a vital part of any editorial layout, and I’ve always used Google Images, but no longer. From PC World: Attackers are now using Google’s image search to distributed malware, security experts say. Thousands of sites have reportedly been compromised by code injection — the malicious code redirects users to…
Peter: Let me ask you something. When you come in on Mondays, and you’re not feeling too well, does anybody ever come up to you and say “sounds like someone’s got a case of the Mondays”? Lawrence: No. No, man, shit, no, man. I believe you’d get your ass kicked for sayin’ something like that,…
Just after 1 a.m., April 12, 1961, a Soviet Vostok rocket blasted off from Baikonour cosmodrome, which alerted US radars in the Aleutian Islands. Twenty-three minutes later, Jerome Wiesner, JFK’s scientific adviser, was notified by telephone and the shit hit the fan. Despite the US throwing Alan Shepard up in sub-orbital space for less than…
Yeah… Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. — Benjamin Franklin (Illustration found here via Google Images). From CNN: Gas prices have jumped nearly 20 cents over the past two weeks, approaching…
From Aljazeera English: A second explosion rocked Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, sending a plume of smoke into the air and touching off fresh concerns of radioactive leak in the quake and tsunami-hit country. The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday the reactor has not been damaged. In the same report, more…
World events this morning continue to operate like shit spewing through a wire basket — the GOPers in Wisconsin pulled a nasty fast one; Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi still maintains law and order while torturing journalists; civilians are still dying in greater numbers throughout Afghanistan; the Dalai Lama calls it quits; and coffee prices spike as…
And it really did come to this: “Oh my God. I’m back. I’m home. All the time, it was… We finally really did it. You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you!” Ah, George Taylor, what the shit are you babbling about? And what did ‘we‘ finally do? In the immediate foam of the…
As one can see via the uprising in Egypt, a government has the power to shut down communications, or at least try and control access to transmissions of whatever information to wherever — CNN reported earlier this morning, Egypt’s information ministry took the country offline with the shutting down of the Noor Group, an Internet…