War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration: Untitled (1981), by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and found here). Today 20 years ago was a Monday. Although I’ve tried to remember how that particular day felt, other than another beautiful day in San Luis Obispo, California, and any sense at all about a quickly-coming, history-shifting event was way-zilch, and way-non-existent. Other than the beginning to…
Joe Biden is handling a shocker this afternoon, usually in his normal, low-key stand-out approach on the bombings in Afghanistan (death toll has risen, now 13 in total of American military fatalities, with 14 wounded), as the US/NATO endgame’s intensity will most-likely kick-up a notch or two. Supposedly, suicide assholes from the Afghan chapter of…
Latest installments of the Afghan-disaster chronicles this Friday afternoon, and how fast the week when shit happens. A cascade of events, going from reality to denial. One note of the extreme measures of getting to the airport — via the Guardian‘s live blog this afternoon: The Pentagon said on Friday that the US used three…
Dominating the news cycle this Tuesday morning by a way-long shot is the opening session of the House Select Committee on the Jan.6 attack on the US Capitol, and began at the most-correct point — testimony from four police officers who defended the building that day. And the all-around best response to the hearing, which…
Despite the obvious: ‘“There is a clear message that is coming through: This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC’s director, said at a Friday briefing of the White House COVID-19 Response Team. “Our biggest concern is we are going to continue to see preventable cases, hospitalizations and sadly deaths…
In the spirit of murderous mass shootings, and coming yesterday way-ironically on National Gun Violence Awareness Day — this is asshole-insane: Details via KTLA, updated last night: A federal judge Friday overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear arms. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San…
Now we know how Republicans can be such shameless, flip-flopping, lying assholes (h/t tweet C&J): One of the most-ridiculous instances in current American life is how Republicans can, without an ounce of discomfiture or remorse, fling reality out the window and dare anyone to question their lying in the face of any obvious observations of…
America has gone trigger happy with gun insanity — the NRA is a mass-murderer’s cult: Over the Mother’s Day weekend there were plenty of gunplay to keep firearm aficionados gleefully occupied — per NPR this morning: ‘We’re just 18 weeks into 2021, and already the U.S. has experienced 194 mass shootings. That averages out to…
January’s insurrection/riot at the US Capitol building is still fresh in the air, but the ghastly event was perpetrated by self-centered dimwits like this coffee-shop owner in Ohio: ‘“If you voted for Joe Biden, don’t buy our coffee, it’s not for you,” he said. “If you feel that America is on the right track and…
The mass murders in the Atlanta area yesterday is another kicker for racism influenced by the nasty, racists years of the T-Rump and his swaddling Republican enablers — fear and cruelty the point: The three shootings Tuesday that killed eight people, six of them Asian women, has dramatically increased the sense of fear in the…
