War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
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…
Today 40 years ago, I was getting ready for a much-awaited discharge from the US Air Force and looking forward to a fall enrollment at the University of Florida — one happy, though, clueless youngster. Indoctrinated by four years in the military, surrounded by right-wing types, the following November I stood in a slight drizzle…
US peoples have too much on their plate nowadays to contend with such assholish-childish political bullshit like this yesterday in Cleveland: According to reports from journalists on the scene, the GOP presidential candidate’s campaign bus showed up at the location of President Barack Obama’s scheduled campaign speech in Cleveland, Ohio, and proceeded to taunt his…
One most-obvious example in the problem with modern life in the US came yesterday during the shameless, sham of a Senate hearing with JP Morgan honcho Jamie Dimon when gnarled nit-twit Jim DeMint slobbered: “We can hardly sit in judgment of your losing $2 billion,†the junior senator from South Carolina explained. “We lose twice…
Early in the morning can be a most-depressing place, at least viewing the state of the US, the world and my own self. Watching the news for insomniacs on ABC, the images float past of nothing but cow shit at best — from Jerry Sandusky to Bashar al-Assad, lying, perverted assholes, shitheads in their own…
Deep fog covering the northern California landscape this early Tuesday morning, but it does feel a bit warm, keeping hopefully the streak of great weather up here going — the fog always burns off early on leaving a beautiful day. Not so with a bat-shit crazy world I encountered online — some stories that pierced…