War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Illustration found here). Early Sunday and deep, wet fog here on California’s north coast, but unlike a lot of other shit going on right now, my natural environment will get better, much better:…
New US DOD honcho Leon Panetta opened his big yap last week and blubbered to the troops in Iraq that they were there “because on 9/11 the United States got attacked,” but he, of course, was just playing, talking shit to the troops. He backpedaled, or tried to run it back: “I wasn’t saying, you…
In a horrid news cycle where events fill the airwaves no matter the content — i.e., currently Casey Anthony and the US debt ceiling debate/debacle — blanket everything else, including the ongoing wars all over the place. And especially lost in the bullshit is the horror of US killing of civilians under the righteous banner…
Lawyers apparently have always been legal assholes. From Roman third-century lawyer, Ulpian, on torture: “The strong will resist and the weak will say anything to end the pain.” Yet to torture is a righteous path: “…the torment and suffering of the body in order to elicit the truth.” Despite the recorded fact that torture does…
Actually, when you think about it, this country has had a manhood problem for some time. You can tell the language we use; language always gives us away. What did we do wrong in Vietnam? We ‘pulled out’! Not a very manly thing to do. No. When you’re fucking people, you’re supposed to stay with…
UPDATE BELOW George Jr. and his boys apparently pissed away more hard cash than was originally reported, maybe three times as much — displaying the dumb-ass norm for the entire Iraqi debacle. (Illustration found here). In that photo above, a guard stands next a few pallets of shrink-wrapped $100 bills. Twenty US C-130 aircraft flew…
A lot of the horrific illegal mindset of modern times when it comes to dissent and contrary views to US government has its inglorious roots in the bowels of Dick Nixon. From the New York Times in September 2006: It (the documentary,”The US vs John Lennon“) focuses on the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, when the…
“Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.” — George Carlin (Illustration found here). Telling a non-truth in a truthful way has apparently become an art form; in this modern world with all kinds of techno ways to flub or expose the lie,…
Being scared of being scared is pretty frightful, and more than a little neurotic. On this early Friday morning as I tap the soft keys of my laptop, the US is involved at least three major war zones — Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya — while at the same time being wrapped up in drone missions,…
Shifting through all the news stories this morning, and despite seeking something of noteworthy value, nothing seemed to turn up — nothing to beat weiner jokes. Although the US and the world is quickly, and apparently without remorse, going to shit in a wire basket, the media is as full of shit as any nasty-eyed,…