War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration found here). As 2011 marches right along, and even as we celebrate the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill (BP high-fived the celebration by doling out big bucks to Republican ass-kissers), and try not to become too emotionally involved with Japan’s increasingly-ominous nuclear nightmare, and try not to think about air traffic controllers…
Human life does indeed travel in cycles — spring, summer, fall and winter — with birth, youth, middle age and the final and abrupt circuit, death. History also appears to move in cycles and the one we’re in right now ain’t pretty, portending a future of a poorly-dressed weird. (Illustration found here). In 1997, generational…
From long ago, and not-so-surprisingly far, far away: Defense Secretary McElroy said after a conference with President Eisenhower Friday that the Pentagon would have “a pretty rough time” trying to avoid a military spending increase staring July 1. McElroy ruled out any increase totaling as much as two billion dollars in excess of the estimated…
Yeah… Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. — Benjamin Franklin (Illustration found here via Google Images). From CNN: Gas prices have jumped nearly 20 cents over the past two weeks, approaching…
(Illustration found here via Google Images). The current US political scene sucks through an extremely-thin straw, making it hard to swallow a possible federal government shut-down this Friday (tomorrow!). In my humble estimation, there’s never been a more nasty, chaotic mess than DC right now, and the real losers are the ordinary, rank-and-file US peoples…
Ordinary US peoples are financial slaves to the rich: In terms of types of financial wealth, the top one percent of households have 38.3% of all privately held stock, 60.6% of financial securities, and 62.4% of business equity. The top 10% have 80% to 90% of stocks, bonds, trust funds, and business equity, and over…
Despite the over-abundance of mustard, a shit sandwich is still a shit sandwich. US peoples know stupid when they realize it — something ain’t right: Just 32 percent of respondents viewed the tea party favorably, while a record-high 47 percent had a negative view of the movement that propelled Republicans to dramatic Congressional victories last…
Unlike many other countries on the planet, at least the ones who claim some form of freedom, a great obstacle facing US peoples is not the economy (though, it is terrible), nature or even some horrific wars, but the heartless, self-centered shitheads to the right of the political center. Yeah, that’s right, Republicans, Tea Baggers,…
In a modern world gone dangerously bat-shit crazy, maybe happiness is indeed a warm gun. As we ponder Japan getting radiated — workers were still trying this early morning to water down the exposed spent fuel rods in the Fukushima plants, but horrific shit is still moving closer and closer to an out-of-control mode —…
Dude, lose the car. From USATodayTravel: University of Iowa sophomore Jimmy Novak didn’t let $3.50-a-gallon gasoline prices keep him from making a spring break pilgrimage to Daytona Beach, Fla., with his fraternity brothers last weekend. But the prospect of $50 fill-ups did alter his behavior: “We’re squeezing five people in a car to save money…