War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
New US DOD honcho Leon Panetta opened his big yap last week and blubbered to the troops in Iraq that they were there “because on 9/11 the United States got attacked,” but he, of course, was just playing, talking shit to the troops. He backpedaled, or tried to run it back: “I wasn’t saying, you…
Pure crazy is gaining momentum by the hour, even as the entire structure of mankind’s latest reincarnation of civilization is breaking apart like an Arkansas outhouse hit by an F5 tornado. And the crazies who are in charge of running this so-called civilization haven’t enough sense to scramble away from that outhouse, but instead scream…
In a horrid news cycle where events fill the airwaves no matter the content — i.e., currently Casey Anthony and the US debt ceiling debate/debacle — blanket everything else, including the ongoing wars all over the place. And especially lost in the bullshit is the horror of US killing of civilians under the righteous banner…
(Illustration found here). Upchucking the ‘toon above: The good news is not gay — it’s pretty-much a hard-packed ass, not happy at all. In reality, there’s no good news. As Sunday morning dawns, the news cycle is still Casey Anthony — she was released back into the wild with all kinds of implications amid death…
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…
Even as this debt ceiling fiasco flails about, slapping everybody in the face with its immature, self-centered, politically-charged dramatics, the planet earth itself is rapidly reaching its own ceiling, which once breached will make every-fuckin’-body forget all that fiscal brouhaha. Despite climate change being way-more dangerous than a bull-on-crack in a china shop, way-more perilous…
(Illustration found here). Even beyond the way-hot weather in the central and eastern US, the disastrous wars all over the globe, and finally even beyond Casey Anthony, the news tearing at the very tattered fabric of everyday life is the infamous, so-called debt ceiling bullshit in which the whacks in DC are deeply bickering. Although,…
Lawyers apparently have always been legal assholes. From Roman third-century lawyer, Ulpian, on torture: “The strong will resist and the weak will say anything to end the pain.” Yet to torture is a righteous path: “…the torment and suffering of the body in order to elicit the truth.” Despite the recorded fact that torture does…
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.†— Oscar Wilde (Illustration found here). If the horrible US jobs report on Friday was anywhere near shocking for you, as Paul Krugman says this morning, “you haven’t been paying attention.” Most-likely the biggest hole in the US economy and the throttle…
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…