War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration found here). Dawn is still about 90 minutes away here on California’s northern coastline, and a thick Pacific fog compels this little corner of a world-gone-utterly bonkers to remain quiet and still. And bonkers be it — there’s enough ugly going on right now to either make me so sad I want to cry,…
Pure crazy is gaining momentum by the hour, even as the entire structure of mankind’s latest reincarnation of civilization is breaking apart like an Arkansas outhouse hit by an F5 tornado. And the crazies who are in charge of running this so-called civilization haven’t enough sense to scramble away from that outhouse, but instead scream…
(Illustration found here). Upchucking the ‘toon above: The good news is not gay — it’s pretty-much a hard-packed ass, not happy at all. In reality, there’s no good news. As Sunday morning dawns, the news cycle is still Casey Anthony — she was released back into the wild with all kinds of implications amid death…
Even as the US economy tanks, there’s still 300 million mouths wide open for a burger and fries — how fat has this country’s people’s become — does fear about the future cause one to consume more junk food? In the past, on occasion being fat was also a sign of wealth, but nowadays it’s…
(Illustration found here). Even beyond the way-hot weather in the central and eastern US, the disastrous wars all over the globe, and finally even beyond Casey Anthony, the news tearing at the very tattered fabric of everyday life is the infamous, so-called debt ceiling bullshit in which the whacks in DC are deeply bickering. Although,…
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.†— Oscar Wilde (Illustration found here). If the horrible US jobs report on Friday was anywhere near shocking for you, as Paul Krugman says this morning, “you haven’t been paying attention.” Most-likely the biggest hole in the US economy and the throttle…
One of the way-great disappointments in US history is Barack Obama, growing from ‘yes, we can’ to ‘no way’ in the space of a finger snap. Most likely, a great reason for the depressed anxiety of US peoples right now is a fevered disillusionment with somebody who was supposed to put the country back on…
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…
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 real bullshit started here: “This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.” — Ron Ziegler, April 17, 1973 Of course, Ziegler went on to construct one of the more infamous of the Watergate era bullshit phrases in a continual failing attempt to replace a bald-face lie with a decent way out for his…