War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Dawn on California’s northern coast — crystal clear and cold. Inflicted with insomnia the last couple of years, I see dawn just about every day — Saturday, though, I did sleep in well past sun up, due to a rare return to sleep. Early to bed, and early to rise put’s a body out of…
Rainy day here along California’s northern coast, though, the sun does peek out from amongst the clouds every now and then. Odd sensation that: Sunshine and rain. In my original neck-of-the-woods (southeastern Alabama), there was some old catch-saying I’d heard as a wee child, went something like this: ‘When you see sun when it’s rainin,’…
Old men, they are now — the big three of the scandal of scandals. The Washington Post blog The Reliable Source reported on a chance encounter in late January of John Dean, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., and the quick whiplash of history — this June will be…
Sleep wasn’t too happy this cycle — insomnia is a baffling infliction, hard to judge and makes a mess of a day. But, what the hey? Wee-early is crazy time. Fer instance, Tom Brady’s old lady gets whipped after whining — Gisele Bundchen was overheard lambasting fumble-fingered receivers, but the Giants’ Brandon Jacobs retorted: “She…
Morning horror: Woke up way-too early to fully handle the CNN headline: Santorum’s Surprise 3-State Sweep. The eyes saw, but didn’t understand/believe — the most-immediate reaction was to quickly suppress blowing huge, gnarly chunks all over the Internets. Clueless ass-wipe Santorum incoherently declared: “I think we need to win in the sense that we need…
Last week, when Mitt Romney blubbered, “I’m not concerned about the very poor,” he later waddled back, claiming he “mispoke.” In reality, the Mitt told the truth — if one has money, who gives a shit. And cartoon-buffoon, mega-rich Don Trump on Monday silly-like claimed credit for Romney’s win in Nevada’s GOP caucus over the…
In all the bullshit noise this past week — even from yesterday’s ‘secular high holy day‘ along with the Three-Ring-Three-Stooges GOP political antics — there’s still folks dying in Afghanistan. A war now beyond the decade limit, and from all indications, going really, really bad. An example of the dumb-ass futility of it all: An American…
Pig skin and history: Ground acquisition. And that’s what football is, football’s a ground acquisition game. You knock the crap out of eleven guys and take their land away from them. Of course, we only do it ten yards at a time. That’s the way we did it with the Indians — we won it…
Last night, long-time CBS correspondent Bob Schieffer waxed hot on modern US politics: This is just another sign of the incivility and really the vulgarity of modern American campaigns. These campaigns have gotten so ugly and so nasty, that they’re now tarnishing the whole system. I think it also underlines the coarseness of our culture…
Yesterday after work, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep Comanche, now back up at $3.89 a gallon for regular — up three cents since the last time we visited the pump, less than a week ago. And in line with the rest of the US, pump prices rose nearly 3.5…