War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Understatement on the crazed shootings yesterday in Afghanistan: It is believed that, some time before the killings, the soldier suffered a nervous breakdown. In a bad situation getting worse, the incident only makes it near-imperative the US and NATO get the shit out of that country, and like way-now. US peoples know, but the powers-that-be…
In the education dust-up via California state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco: “It is a little embarrassing that Harvard is cheaper than the California State University,” he said in an interview. “When you price out so many students, it is devastating to the future of the state. Our sons and daughters won’t be here to…
In the dawn of a Republican keg party of nonsense, a shitload of delusional US peoples will take to the ballot box in 10 states and try to separate the horribly bad from just the plain, dumb bad. Super Tuesday they want to call it. Except them Republican voters are staying home — so far…
Because there’s two kinds of women. There are two kinds of women and you, as we well know, are not the first kind. You, my dear, are a slut. — Victor Komarovsky to Lara Antipova, Doctor Zhivago In a respite from worrying about the weather, we’ve encountered once again the soulless, nasty cruelty of today’s…
We can all sleep better now that Mitt Romney is once again the top GOP dog — slipping past the field in Arizona, and especially in the land of his birth, Michigan: ” … We didn’t win by a lot, but we won by enough and that’s all that counts.” Yes, winning is all that…
Wealth can indeed make one an asshole. A new study indicates when a person has more, he will take more: Those findings led to a series of experiments that revealed that people of higher socioeconomic status were also more likely to cheat to win a prize, take candy from children and say they would pocket…
Beyond war crimes: Peter Falstead of Jane’s Defence Weekly says the tail fins look, “very much like the tail fins from SM-240,†also known as the “Tulip Tree†developed by the Soviets in the 1970s. Today it is the largest mortar system used by any military in the world, and the Syrian army is believed…
Down through history, dictators and other such types have always launched slaughter sprees when needed to maintain hold on power, no big deal — in Syria nowadays, however, the horror virally gobsmacks the face of the world. And it’s bad. This morning, two journalists — one French, the other an American working for the UK’s…
A small instance of a humongous and worsening situation: The decline in the chipmunk’s genetic diversity occurred in the relatively short span of 90 years, demonstrating the rapid threat changing climate can represent for a species, a UC Berkeley release said Sunday. The shift of the living due to a warming environment poses a danger…
Religion covers a lot of ground — there’s a church for just about every conceivable thought and emotion, and there’s always somebody willing to kill you for whatever’s sake. Rick Santorum’s smug view: “In the Christian church there are a lot of different stripes of Christianity. If the president says he’s a Christian, he’s a…