War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration found here). In one of the most ironic and laughingly insulting remarks of the political year came yesterday from US Speaker of the House John ‘The Boner’ Boehner: “We’re here. We’re ready to work,” Boehner told reporters on Capitol Hill. “We can resolve these differences … and give the American people a real Christmas…
Today is payday for our five employees at my liquor store and putting together the payroll is the main concern this morning — we’re a rarity as we pay weekly, not every couple of weeks like most businesses. And we’re holding our own in this way-depressed economy, although we’re well off the mark we were…
This morning, a possible confrontation of some importance in the ground swelling/breaking Occupy Wall Street phenomenon as Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan has been ordered cleared for cleaning — zero hour was set for 7 a.m. EST (about right now (3 a.m. PST). The protestors have vowed to remain, even the powers that be: “You…
(Illustration found here). Being poor is getting further down and dirty. In an age where money is getting scarce for those on the bottom rung of the economic ladder, the prospects for any kind of decent future are quickly sucking down the financial drain. On Tuesday, the US Census Bureau released it annual poverty outlook…
(Illustration found here). “The economy makes it really tough right now,” said (Tyler) Mitchell. “People say, ‘You go to college, you get a degree, you’ll get a great job.’ Well nowadays, I don’t really think that’s really the case. You go to college, you get a degree, you get a lot of debt, and you…
(Illustration found here). Yesterday’s suck hole on Wall Street is most-likely a harbinger of an anxious future. Scared of all kinds of money-entangled shit, the stock market cratered more than 500 points, the Asian markets following with the European markets this morning still tracking downward. Oops, we were wrong: “The conventional wisdom on Wall Street…
Even as the US economy tanks, there’s still 300 million mouths wide open for a burger and fries — how fat has this country’s people’s become — does fear about the future cause one to consume more junk food? In the past, on occasion being fat was also a sign of wealth, but nowadays it’s…
“What has two thumbs, and don’t give a crap? Bob Kelso” — Scrubs I’ve got to stop watching Scrubs on Netflicks before going to bed (up to season six) as the show’s end music chimes in my brain while I drift to sleep. And when awake, I have this compulsion to always want to slightly…
Trying to find a job in the US is getting to be worse than a bitch. From Calculated Risk: For the current employment recession, employment peaked in December 2007, and this recession is by far the worst recession since WWII in percentage terms, and 2nd worst in terms of the unemployment rate (only the early…
Job hunting will apparently go from bad to worse and then beyond. From Gallup yesterday: Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, increased to 10.1% in September — up sharply from 9.3% in August and 8.9% in July. Much of this increase came during the second half of the month — the unemployment rate…