War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In the last few years there’s been a momentous outburst of gall — the audacity of some people to bullshit despite incredible evidence to the contrary — which has touched just about every aspect of US life, especially in politics. Two such unrelated examples occurred this past weekend, one involved GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry…
Environmental disasters are nothing new, neither are financial disasters, and both are man made for the way-most part. The on-going ‘Occupy Wall Street’ demonstration, which is gaining a shitload of traction the last few days, netted 700-plus arrests yesterday when protestors tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge — the spark from New York has jumped to…
Everyday appears a mystery, and the mystery more wonderful. ‘Light at dawn, shone through clouds, thick with weather. Even in the gray a beauty of quiet, potent perplexity Awaiting this day. A most-astonishing sight.’ Poetry has always explained a lot of shit we just don’t understand, a state in which reality can’t seem to interpret,…
Early mornings has always been the best time of any day for me as life is still fresh and the earlier the better — optimism and hope swell the mental membranes. The air is clear (even with thick coastal fog) because the mind is still clear; all the problems facing this wretched planet seem far…
“If this works out, we’ll have the ability to track people persistently across wide areas,†says Tim Faltemier, the lead biometrics researcher at Progeny Systems Corporation, which recently won one of the Army contracts. “A guy can go under a bridge or inside a house. But when he comes out, we’ll know it was the…
Living in the nowadays apparently makes a lot of people scared of just about everything, and the real ‘new normal‘ is the high-abundance of paranoia. And this delusion of persecution, this extreme, irrational distrust of others is not induced by any ingested drug, but comes from a shitload of people’s own natural body fluids. Marijuana…
(Illustration found here). Early Tuesday here on California’s northern coast and listening to neighbors act like loud assholes at this early hour makes me want to scream, lash out into the dark, pierce the clear, clean air with a shitload of curses. Although I’ve been awake awhile, and I’m fully awake right now, the disturbance…
Not only do politicians spew forth much bullshit, the organization that’s supposed to separate shit from bull is itself full of crap. US peoples don’t trust journalism: Only one-quarter of those surveyed say news orgs get the facts right, a new low since 1985 when the question was first asked. Two-thirds (66 percent) say stories…
“If you don’t want it to be the most expensive year [for gasoline prices,] you’re surreptitiously rooting for an economic debacle.†— Tom Kloza of the Oil Price Information Service (via the Washington Post last week) (Illustration found here). Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of fuel in my old Jeep Comanche and still at…
US politics suck really, really bad. Although Bubba Clinton was talking about climate change, he could have been discussing the state of America in the eyes of the whole world via an ugly, laundry-list of dumb-ass crap, from finance to the turmoil in a badly-shod political system — an embarrassing, socially awkward and more-than-pathetic joke.…