War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
“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…
The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it. — George Carlin Some US peoples might believe they’re happy, but in reality happy is just illusion pasted from a non-revised history of this country — happy is somewhere else. (Illustration found here). This week, the Organization…
Practiced are my sins, Never gonna let me win, aw huh,.. Under everything, just another human being, aw huh,.. Yeh, I don’t wanna hurt, there’s so much in this world To make me bleed. — “Just Breathe,” Pearl Jam Emotion has always seemed to be Pearl Jam’s musical cornerstone, with the mega-sorrowful, gravel-like voice of…
Here in the wee hours of the last day of May 2011, the world keeps spinning, the rain keeps coming down (along the northern California coast) and bad shit keeps filling CBS’ early-morning-looped-news program, ‘Up to the Minute‘ — repeated stories that’s just flutter in the breeze compared to the horror coming via climate change.…
My standard for Memorial Day: “Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers…
Yesterday, I put $20 worth of gas in my Jeep, this time at $4.29 a gallon for regular, a shocking $.15 drop in price in just more than two weeks, the last time I put fuel in the old Comanche (I don’t get out much). All this in time for the infamous Memorial Day Weekend…
Apart from the natural horror seemingly occurring daily in the US midwest — 126 have been confirmed dead in Joplin, MO, while another 232 are reported still missing — another horror, the dumb-ass world on terror continues without rhyme or reason, but a whole-lot of dying. Two huge IEDs exploded one-after-another in Afghanistan on Thursday,…
One of the very, very few people who have emerged on the national scene the last couple of years with not only intelligence and competence, but also more than a semblance of compassion, is financial expert, Elizabeth Warren, the presidential adviser in charge of establishing ground-plans for the newly-created Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB)…
Air and earth has quickly become a deadly pain in the ass. Images from TV the last few days, and the last couple of months to be more precise, has reached a seemingly movie-as-real-life scenario with scenes of carnage which once could only be depicted via CGI — the absolute waste is visually overwhelming, as…
As Joplin, Missouri, gleans through horrific wreckage, the rest of us must beware of a new life style. From Reuters: Heavy rains, deep snowfalls, monster floods and killing droughts are signs of a “new normal” of extreme U.S. weather events fueled by climate change, scientists and government planners said on Wednesday. “It’s a new normal…