War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration found here). The good-ole US of A has gone to shit in a wire basket. Or have we been in the shitter a long, long time — take the case of the so-called Great American Dream, which in itself was/is a dream, a vapor of whisper-lies going back more than 200 years. The fable…
Osama bin Laden has to be way-laughing through his terror-obstructed ass. (Illustration found here). Air travel in the US can be a pain in the nut-sack. American traveler John Tyner unloaded a notorious phrase this past weekend when he was searched prior to boarding a plane in San Deigo, telling a TSA employee, “If you…
One of the things I’ve always wondered about is how do people who’ve done obvious shitty stuff in public handle themselves? How do they view themselves in a mirror, how do they sleep at night knowing they caused needless horror and suffering — despite my disbelief, I have to keep in mind a lot of…
‘Cause suicide is painless it brings on many changes and I can take or leave it if I please. …and you can do the same thing if you choose. — Johnny Mandel, (M*A*S*H lyrics) (Illustration found here). The suicide rate for the US military is staggering. From CBS News last Friday: The Army’s suicide rate is…
Hypocrisy, from Wikipedia: The act of pretending to have beliefs, opinions, virtues, feelings, qualities, or standards that one does not actually have. Hypocrisy involves the deception of others and is thus a kind of lie. Hillary Clinton telling Cambodia to confront its tortured past: “It’s a very disturbing experience and the pictures — both the…
From a Bill Moyers speech last week at Boston University: George Bernard Shaw once complained that journalists are seemingly unable to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. And Tuesday’s midterm elections is a bike crash bred with the end of walking-around sense, thus creating an empty vacuum between the ears of…
Did we neglect to mention John Boehner is an “asshat”? In a trainwreck of an election yesterday, it was fairly-well demonstrated there’s a shitload of asshats in the US. And this a snapshot of why we’re in the toilet. Chris Matthews to Michelle Bachmann: “Congresswoman Bachmann — are you hypnotized tonight? Has someone hypnotized you?…
Today tells the tale — the most expansive midterm election in US history as all sorts and sizes of political entities are crowding the ballot box. And to make the entire situation nearly bat-shit-crazy with electoral chaos, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for the vote, with Republicans needing to have…
The title quite a mash-up, huh? A mouthful of alliterated sounds beckoning forth a bat-shit-crazy. However, if according to the US Supreme Court and corporations are indeed people — “…citizens, or associations of citizens…” — then somewhere out there is some giant, asshole of a guy with a name synonymous with hideously-cruel, insane and arrogant incompetence:…
On the weekends, my blogging window-of-performance-opportunity is kind of whacked. During the ‘work week’ its early and quick, but Saturday and Sunday presents a longer, more-lazy approach to venting my writing obsession (blogs are a most delightful means to maintain writing, the whole Internet, really — I’ve been writing near-serious in all different kinds of…