War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Early yesterday, we had a couple of power outages — pretty rare up here — and the last one occurred while working on this blog, and no post. First time during the weekdays for more than 18 months straight — hey, not bad. And man — when one is so used to light 24/7 dark…
This would be laughable if not so bat-shit crazy. A response to George Jr. this weekend via Town Square Buzz: Most of Bush’s speeches are closed to the press, and this was no exception, so I was not allowed to record or report on the event. That’s a shame. This was a side of the…
Last week, a regular customer and I got into a short discussion during check-out on the subject of college debt — she told me she was having trouble paying off just $4,000 in loan obligations. “It’s a pain in the ass,” she said, but agreed her total was nowhere the average for today’s young people…
Despite today being the national pot day — 4/20 — hahahahahahahahaha…. If you celebrate this particular day in any fashion, you’re not a real toker, but a celebrity seeker. In case you didn’t know it, everyday is 4/20, and why make a holiday out of something as regular as doing a bowl, besides, if one…
Pretty much a fact that Republicans can’t govern worth a shit — three GOP presidents excepted, Abe, Ike and Dick, though the last guy had some major pathological problems — and George Jr. was the worst White House occupant in US history. The only way that nasty party can even stay alive is by blowing…
“They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.” — George Carlin (Illustration found here). Yesterday, that most-august body of assholes, the US Senate, and fueled by the ugly gnashing of…
“The other day I was listening to the radio. The Afghan minister was assassinated. I’m thinking, What threat did he pose to the Taliban? Who even wants to go to Afghanistan? His phone rings once a month.” — Bob Newhart, quoted in Esquire, January 2009 The continuing wonderland Afghan war caught another shit-storm this weekend…
Next to the North Koreans, the US Republican political party is the biggest bunch of incompetent, big-mouthed assholes on the planet — after some wondrous words of self praise, both fired rockets that disintegrated shortly after lift off, leaving the joke’s punch line in the dust. The North Koreans a few days ago on the…
In the early morning, there’s news of an 8.6 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean — that’s a big sucker with tsunami warnings issued for the entire region, but initial reports indicate no big wave and damage is slight. Hopefully, they will be spared the shades of 2004 when another quake…
Buttercup: Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.’s? Westley: Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist. — The Princess Bride Ah, Westley, yes they do (just as yourself found out real fast) and the real world’s biggest, ugliest and nastiest rodent of unusual size resides in Syria — in fact, Bashar al-Assad has gotten so…