War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Order was being attempted in the northeastern US this morning as peoples work their way out of the massive natural disaster called Hurricane Irene — Vermont, New Jersey and upstate New York are flooding nearly out of control as rivers pour over their banks, washing away a lifetime’s work of many, many lives. Scenes incomprehensible,…
(Illustration of Francisco Goya’s ‘Disaster of War‘ found here). US peoples — and for the final matter — all the world’s peoples stand not-so-nimbly on the edge of a strange and nefarious, swiftly-shifting, era in time, where all these multi-layered gushers filled with historical debris are coming swiftly from all directions, inundating all aspects of…
Even as natural disasters confront the US at every turn — this morning Hurricane Irene is bearing down on the Eastern Seaboard, where a lot of folks are still recovering from an near-unprecedented earthquake a couple of days ago — Republican budget cutters are still all for gutting disaster relief. One asshole GOP senator was…
Early Wednesday, a sharp 4.5 aftershock hit about five miles from the epicenter of Tuesday’s earthquake, which rattled the whole US eastern seaboard and has put people on edge. Via Twitter this morning: visionAri_style 1:30am: #aftershock !!!! I felt that !!!! I knew I wasn’t trippen! But I am trippen bc I packed a bag…
Turn about is fair play, huh? Indeed, as the US East Coast experienced a dose of western-style living yesterday with a 5.8-magnitude earthquake, which struck about 40 miles northwest of Richmond, Virginia, and was felt from Georgia to northern New England. Although no serious injuries or heavy-duty structural damage was reported — the Washington Monument…
Even as quick downloads of extreme weather have become the ‘new normal‘ in the US — baseball-size hail yesterday in Nebraska, and drought conditions have spread to 12 percent of the country — and even as more reports come about global warming, any kind of fix is near-about impossible. A major problem is the blow-hole…
Even as big chunks of planet earth have undergone some extreme weather recently — right now there’s a climate-change-influenced furnace blistering the US heartland — some dumb-ass, and way-dangerous people have continued to deny the obvious, with the latest flack coming from GOP nit-twits who think they should be president. And, really, for some crazed…
Left my post for just a week and imbecilic chaos ensues. As if in a fevered nightmare, the peoples of the world, and especially US peoples have taken complete leave of any known sense, and have fully and absolutely embraced bat-shit crazy. On the far side of Wall Street, which had the wildest ride in…
Today starts the first official vacation I’ve had in years — the last a near-decade ago while working for a newspaper — and the feeling is already weird. I’ll not be posting again until most-likely next weekend as this ‘vacation‘ is the first time I’ve been disconnected from the online world for any length of…
In a time so awash in dramatic events, especially the last couple of weeks and the debt ceiling/financial markets bombast — worse Wall Street week in three years, the US downgraded from AAA to AA+ — and this morning came reports of 31 US GIs killed in an Afghan helicopter crash, a commemoration of a…