Compatible Creatures by Bruce Maulden
War, Politics, and Life
Remember all those most-wonderful slogans bubbling up from Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, like ‘Change We Can Believe In,’ and ‘Yes, We Can,” which was chanted en-mass whenever the other motto ran out of steam. The phrases were so effective and catchy, even Jackboot John McCain tried to get into the act, stealing Obama’s thunder…
(Illustration of Edward Hopper‘s ‘Morning Sun‘ found here). Here we are on a wee-early Thursday morning trying to slop through the night’s news and nothing other than the usual war, pestilence and grief, with much emphasis on war, jumps out at me — another daylight-coming on an earth eat-up with bad shit. Nothing seems to…
Sitting here along California’s northern coast on a quiet Tuesday morning — the first day of summer — the world’s largest ocean continues its massive movement a couple of miles away, and even way out there in the darkness of the Pacific, the growing danger of climate change is rippling, creating a much-more shitty future…
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…
On Friday, I put another $20 worth of fuel in the old Jeep, gas now down to $4.19 a gallon for regular — a dime drop in just a week and nearly a quarter in less than a month. This as certain oil prices increased: Brent crude oil futures for July 2011 delivery ended the…
‘Danger, Will Robinson, Danger.’ After bickering like a bunch of rich, spoiled brats — which they are — members of OPEC, the scary, big oil producing cartel, busted up its meeting yesterday so out-of-line with each other they couldn’t decide on anything. Ali Ibrahim Naimi, oil minister for Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s biggest producer, called it “one…
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 in the wee hours of the last day of May 2011, the world keeps spinning, the rain keeps coming down (along the northern California coast) and bad shit keeps filling CBS’ early-morning-looped-news program, ‘Up to the Minute‘ — repeated stories that’s just flutter in the breeze compared to the horror coming via climate change.…
Yesterday, I put $20 worth of gas in my Jeep, this time at $4.29 a gallon for regular, a shocking $.15 drop in price in just more than two weeks, the last time I put fuel in the old Comanche (I don’t get out much). All this in time for the infamous Memorial Day Weekend…