War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
War is chaos — hence the word ‘war‘ can be traced back to the Indo-European root, ‘wers,’ which is to confuse, mix up. Funny, another form derived from the same Indo-European root word had developed into a word denoting a more benign kind of mixture, Old High German, ‘wurst,’ meaning “sausage.†In a flurry of…
Five days after the massive voter surge, President-Elect Obama is treading carefully on all kinds of foreign policy entanglements that have come up, and he’s displayed a sense of you can’t rush good shit in to replace some real bad shit. Despite whatever the voters in the US said last Tuesday, the world remains one…
A woman moves through a graveyard near Kabul in December 2001. In the first seven months of this year, at least 540 Afghan civilians were killed in fighting related to the armed conflict, and add more from recent incidents just this past week. (Illustration found here). According to CNN yesterday, the situation in Afghanistan appears…
Fear has been Decider George’s top weapon of choice the last near-eight years. So now as he gets ready to get the shit out of Dodge, fear has cropped up again during some kind of tear-filled speech yesterday for White House staffers. Now it’s terrorists striking during the transition: “For the next 75 days, all…
Talk about some history-freaked whiners. CNN reported this evening a bunch of straight-faced historians said Decider George has just been “unlucky” with a lot of bad shit happening on his watch, and future people might deal with the sonofabitch in a much better light than right now, a Harry Truman kind of character. Shit happens,…
What’s this with US bombs and Afghan weddings? These two kids, small members of an Afghan wedding party bombed to bits by US aircraft in July 2002, killing 20 to 30 people (Illustration found here), are a horrifyingly sad picture of what’s been accomplished in a war that’s now dragged on for more than seven…
Amazing and nearly dreamlike. (Illustration of the new US First Family found here). As a child of the US deep South (now living in California), what Barack Obama pulled off yesterday is nothing short of incredible — and a damn-long-time coming. Who would have thought such a thing just a decade or so ago. Many…
The entire story is pretty-much incomprehensible, this so-called financial crisis currently tormenting the entire planet. No one seems to know anything about what to do and Alan Greenspan, that great monetary wizard, blubbered last week he was shocked at the whole affair, as if he couldn’t see it coming a mile away. Greenspan: Those of…
In the quick wake of Sept. 11, 2001, Decider George set the banner in the winds of war. In a national address that night, he set the tone for the next seven years, blubbering: “The search is underway for those who are behind these evil acts. I’ve directed the full resources for our intelligence and…
Lurching to a finish, Decider George will leave the next president a foreign policy situation worse-than a can of big, ugly worms. This particular can, however, is way-different, thus making the worms way-different — they’ve been trip wired, booby trapped, apt to explode when touched a certain way. And they’re really, really slimy. Worm One:…