War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In an uncertain age, President-Elect Obama’s inauguration Tuesday is a security nightmare — more than three million people expected to attend, creating an armed camp around the US capitol. (Illustration found here). A big, frightful pause in Obama’s security is the obnoxious, cadaverous head of the obnoxious Homeland Security apparatus, Michael Chertoff, who really could…
See a list thrown up there in wide-open spaces. Think Progress has an incredible serial-names roll call of Decider George’s minions — caretakers as in Sarah Palin — during the past eight gruesome years. Read it here.
As Decider George gets ready to leave, there’s nothing better than to send his ass flying out the door. Although still in jail, Iraqi shoe bomber Muntadhar al-Zeidi turned 30 on Thursday: “Muntadhar was in a good shape … and his morale was high. Yesterday was his birthday and some patriotic officers there organized a…
Another brick in the wall. The DOD’s IG says the DOD did nothing illegal in the DOD’s TV news military analysts program: But in the new report, the inspector general’s office, noting the absence of a clear legal definition of propaganda, said there was an “insufficient basis†to conclude that the program had violated laws…
Andrew Wyeth, one of greats in the art world of precise realism, died today at the age of 91. (Illustration of Wyeth’s ‘Christina’s World‘ found here). On the artwork above, from the New York Times obit story this morning: One picture encapsulated his fame. “Christina’s World†became an American icon like Grant Wood’s “American Gothic, 
One last jab at Decider George’s sad and nearly-innocuous good-bye address last night, an useless endeavor if there’s ever been one, and with nearly 70 percent of US peoples wanting him gone — good, good-bye to eight years of some real-bad doo-doo. A lot commentators reflected it was Decider George’s best speech — because it…
Even an after-thought already. Decider George’s farewell fiasco was eclipsed in the news cycle today by the Airbus doing a hard belly-flop in the Hudson River — and furthermore, a “miracle,” as everybody on board got out alive, creating a story-line way-overshadowing a despised president’s parting dribble. (Illustration of Emile Jean Horace Vernet’s ‘Les Adieux…
Late this afternoon here in northern California — early evening back on the right coast — Decider George will bid his not-so-absolute farewell to a beleaguered nation, a crowd of US peoples itching for his face to disappear off any kind of radar. The folksy speech, apparently, will continue the bullshit: The speech at 5…
As the Gaza situation continues, even in the face of international outcries and the top U.N. human rights official calling for a war crimes investigation, the real-deal hand in all this, Iran, is being cool. One great fear of this entire cruel episode is that Israel will piss off its Arab neighbors so bad, an…
Intelligence does not always mean brainy. Charlie Wilson wasn’t a spook, but he used the stuff of spooks to create such an explosive blowback situation in Afghanistan that the war he fueled altered modern life — and not at all for the good. Wilson is a Custer-like asshole who convinced all of DC the CIA…