War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
One cannot imagine the uselessness of combating anything of importance with those elected so-called leaders of the near-rudderless US of A — the failure of the “super committee” is the latest example of why mankind just might be freakin’ doomed. If these assholes can’t agree on finances, how can they reach an accord on the…
My apologies to one of Forrest‘s most-beloved quips, but US politics has become so much more than stupid talking, it’s mean-spirited pure ugly — especially amongst Republicans. Hence, the supposedly GOP presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich on OWS: “Now, that is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has collapsed as a moral system…
Ralph Waldo Emerson, America’s greatest philosopher, visited Thoreau in jail. Emerson asked: “Henry, why are you here?” Thoreau replied: “Why are you not here?” — In protest of the Mexican War, 1846 In those crackdowns this week on the OWS, a deep, sinking feeling of nefarious, dark workings: Questions about the Department of Homeland Security’s…
Sometimes it’s nauseatingly obvious Republicans have abandoned normal and compassionate discourse and are just blubbering nonsense. On Monday, Republicans allowed health for children to be dipped in a money pie: The spending bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now. The department’s proposed guidelines would…
Seemingly, it appears the entire world is bat-shit crazy — the bubble of reality was never really real. Experts in confusion via The Big Picture: We just may be in the midst of the biggest bubble in history. The complacency that the accumulation of all the ills of the many and massive bubbles that have…
Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep, the pump price still at $3.99 a gallon for regular — a fixture now at the local Union 76. Although those numbers have not moved here on California’s northern coast for at least two months, the overall gas/oil theater appears on some kind…
In the middle of some horrific and nasty events this past week comes a piece of news that really, really sucks — the US has been working quietly behind the scenes to water down the international ban on cluster bombs. And it’s the 1 percent greed factor — from The Hill this week: Two prominent…
Paying any amount of attention to just the last 24 hours would give any normal person a near-heart attack at the wholesale foolishness. Right now, the US is the midst of two sex scandals — one is horrible beyond comprehension, though, way-familiar, and the other has evolved into nasty and much-creepy political football that creates…
“Simply, just did not happen.” — Herman Cain, yesterday (Illustration found here). Yes, indeed — just as simple as that. In a nutcase presser late Tuesday afternoon, Cain mouthed on and on about the simplicity of the whole nasty sexual harassment bullshit as being beyond a giant lie, re-blubbering what he’d blubbered on Jimmy Kimmel…
Yesterday, all US peoples — with the exception of peoples in Hawaii or Arizona, and maybe some parts of Indiana — lived through another piece of worthless tradition that really doesn’t do anything other than aggravate. Mankind has been living via daylight since forever, up at sunrise, down at sunset and work like a mad…