War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Why we can’t have nice things: And when the adults have to take precautions with children acting like little whiny assholes — via Salon this evening: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is requiring that all members in the House of Representatives continue wearing masks, despite new guidance from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that…
Finally, the time has come — if you’ve been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 the CDC announced today you don’t have to wear a mask, or even social distance yourself if you’re indoors, a heart-felt move toward more-fully opening society. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said at a briefing this afternoon: ‘“We have all longed for this…
Although the shit seems to be hitting the crazy fan for Republicans, the chief point is events on both sides of the proverbial-political aisle is increasingky obvious to the whole-freaking world — on the reality side, plain-popular conspicuous Joe Biden is doing a way-bang-up great job the last three months on many levels, while in the…
(Illustration: The U.K. and France as seen from the Space Station, and found here). Just when you thought it was safe to go outside again, or maybe even stay inside, depends on the chance: Details via SpaceNews on Friday: China launched the first module for its space station into orbit late Wednesday, but the mission…
Where does the asshole stop? Tucker Carlson is not only an unmitigated liar, but anti-societal in his rantigs about masks and the fever dream of freedoms. Indeed the horrors of irony are so lost on the right-handed nutjobs creating chaos in a dangerous environment. Despite the deaths of 572,850 Americans in just a bit more…
A horrible side effect of the COVID pandemic is a shift of resources from the Before Times normal health/medical operations, tests and other actions used to combat ‘regular’ issues like childhood immunizations and other disease treatments to a fulll-throttle push to gain a handle on the coronavirus. We could be in a world of hurt…
Meanwhile, beyond the shooting of guns and the killing thereof, the immediate COVID threat continues to expand with the possibility that even vaccines available, there’s enough assholes who won’t take a shot to keep the US from beating the virus — Republican are so shitting on this country. We’re about to reach a weird-ass milestone…
Beyond the knotty dung-drops happening right now — another shooting, closing arguments in the Derek Chauvin murder trial, Republicans whining about Maxine Waters talking truth, a drone flight on Mars, and so forth — a major event in the battle against climate change happens this week when the world is supposed to come together to…
America woke up this morning to another freaking mass shooting — this one late last night in Indiana (CBS): A 19-year-old gunman opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis late Thursday night, killing eight people before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said. Police identified the suspect as Brandon Scott Hole, a former FedEx…
One really-big major problem in securing a handle on the COVID pandemic is asshole Republicans, as way-witnessed this morning in a one-sided debate between slipknot, nit-twit Gym Jordan and Anthony Fauci during testimony at a House Oversight coronavirus subcommittee hearing, and the shit didn’t end well. Jordan is emblematic of the self-ignorant cruelty of Republicans,…
