War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep, the pump price still at $3.99 a gallon for regular — a fixture now at the local Union 76. Although those numbers have not moved here on California’s northern coast for at least two months, the overall gas/oil theater appears on some kind…
George Jr., always the consummate asshole: “I must say, I’m a little envious. “If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed. “It must be exciting for you … in some ways romantic, in some…
In the middle of some horrific and nasty events this past week comes a piece of news that really, really sucks — the US has been working quietly behind the scenes to water down the international ban on cluster bombs. And it’s the 1 percent greed factor — from The Hill this week: Two prominent…
Paying any amount of attention to just the last 24 hours would give any normal person a near-heart attack at the wholesale foolishness. Right now, the US is the midst of two sex scandals — one is horrible beyond comprehension, though, way-familiar, and the other has evolved into nasty and much-creepy political football that creates…
“Simply, just did not happen.” — Herman Cain, yesterday (Illustration found here). Yes, indeed — just as simple as that. In a nutcase presser late Tuesday afternoon, Cain mouthed on and on about the simplicity of the whole nasty sexual harassment bullshit as being beyond a giant lie, re-blubbering what he’d blubbered on Jimmy Kimmel…
(Illustration found here). No wonder young people are more than pissed — the future looks like shit. And greed is greed. From CNN: According to analysis by the Pew Research Center released Monday, younger Americans have been left behind as the oldest generation has seen wealth surge since the mid-1980s. … In 1984, households headed…
Yesterday, all US peoples — with the exception of peoples in Hawaii or Arizona, and maybe some parts of Indiana — lived through another piece of worthless tradition that really doesn’t do anything other than aggravate. Mankind has been living via daylight since forever, up at sunrise, down at sunset and work like a mad…
Being sick is a total bitch — and I say that in a nice way for all you female dogs out there. My youngest daughter came down out of the mountains a week or so ago just finishing up a bad cold, and promptly gave it to me, thank-you very much! Now after plying myself…
Take heart everybody, the situation is actually worse than we think, so there’s no need to panic…yet. Yesterday, there were a couple of ‘monster‘ reports — one in climate science, the other in economics — that explained in detail why both our environment and our state-of-living is in bad shape, and why the US and…
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…