War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Dutch Engstrom: Man, you sure must have hurt that railroad. They spent a lot of money setting up that ambush. Pike Bishop: I caught up with them. Two or three times. There was a man named Harrigan. He used to have a way of doing things. I made him change his ways. And a hell…
In this the day after our Independence Day, the world looks about the same from up here on California’s northern coast, although the real word of the day yesterday (via Urban Dictionary) was “Freedom Fondle” — The honor of being screened by the TSA at airport security. Funny, but with a most-definite Orwellian feel. And…
In the wake of yesterday’s surprise of surprises on the Supremes upholding the Affordable Care Act, a lot of people went slightly mad, most of the them from the right side of the nut bowl, claiming all things horrible in connection with Obamacare going live. The worst: Wing-nut Rep. Jean Schmidt screams with joy at…
As we await this morning the results of the nasty legal thoughts of the US Supreme assholes on the Affordable Care Act — a la ‘Obamacare’ — political verbiage is getting out of whack. Plain ole lying has reached an artless art form. liar Even forked-tongued master Sarah Palin opened her yap this week in anticipation,…
Amongst all the bad news pouring out of so many different sources, sometimes it’s hard to be shocked by shit, but yesterday, the announcement of the death of Nora Ephron was like a slap to the face. She was 71. And way-beyond being female, she was just one of the coolest people in media — one…
In a time when time waits for no sonofabitch, our climate is shifting right in front of our eyes and noses. Only ignorance or delusion could keep anyone from becoming fairly alarmed at the state of our only living space, and with the environment apparently going through big, big changes, humanity is right on the…
Nearly five-and-a-half years ago, Harvard energy and climate expert John Holdren, also president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, warned the planet about climate change: “We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more…
(Illustration found here). All things on this planet have just three parts: A beginning, a middle, and an end. No matter the subject, the material, or the biological make-up, the life of all things have this order of narrative, from plants, to animals, and to human peoples — no one escapes this hard-set plot, whether…
This morning, worldwide financial honchos are letting loose a collective sigh of relief as the Greeks swallowed their medicine as the pro-bailout New Democracy party claimed “a victory for all Europe” in Sunday’s national election. Once again, we dodged the blistering bullet of chaos. However, one round that’s keep popping is climate change, now on…
(Illustration found here). A must-read for this particular day — one small snip: For we judge between the plate that is unclean and the plate that is clean, saying first, if the plate is clean, then you shall have dessert. But of the unclean plate, the laws are these: If you have eaten most of…