War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
On Friday, I put another $20 worth of fuel in the old Jeep and the pump price was the same as the last time — $4.19 a gallon for regular. Whop-pee! Isn’t that something? The excitement is not in the price, but that it didn’t go higher — hard to understand these numbers at the…
The very most-wonderful dog I ever had was a Springer Spaniel (very similar to the one shown at left) named Bogie, one sweet animal given to me as a puppy. He was a pure breed, his parents two upstanding Springers themselves, and Bogie was a vital part of our family for more than a dozen…
Cyrus: Do you fly, Johnny? Johnny: No. Cyrus: You keep that in mind when you look at her…because if your dick jumps out of your pants…you jump out of this plane. –Â Con Air One has to wonder. In a major and shameful surprise yesterday, Anthony Weiner’s pathetic press conference where he admitted all the bad…
Here it is, another Monday and another start to another week as the US and the world moves closer and closer to some kind of cluster bomb — which by the way is still killing. Three young boys were killed and another was badly wounded on Sunday when an unexploded cluster bomb detonated in south…
Yesterday, a remarkable thing — I put $20 worth of gas in my Jeep and, lo-and-behold, the price was still the same as last week, $4.45 a gallon for regular. This is the first time in a long time the pump price has stayed steady, although still at a crazed high. And despite oil-price dumping…
Last Thursday, I put $20 worth of gas in my Jeep — Union-76 at $4.45 a gallon for regular, and about the norm for this particular region of northern California. One wonders when last week’s oil-price nosedive will be reflected at the pump. From liveoilprices: Brent crude oil futures for June 2011 delivery ended the…
Are we finished with Osama bin Laden, already? If the killing of the murderous shithead doesn’t change the insanity of the so-called ‘war on terror’ than the whole thing is just a media spin to give poor US peoples a last chance to chant at the flag. Is Osama’s killing a ticket out of Afghanistan,…
(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…
WTF — Sonofabitchin’ asshole of a shithead! Researchers found that the students were able to keep their hands submerged in the icy water for longer when repeating the swear word — establishing a link between swearing and an increase in pain tolerance. They also found that the pain-numbing effect was four times more likely to…
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…