Compatible Creatures by Bruce Maulden
War, Politics, and Life
Books and movies are two completely different countries. In one you read by yourself (unless you’re in a group-grope book club), the other you see and hear — and the two supposedly connect when the book is made into a movie. Rare, though, when the movie comes direct off the page. Movies can also alter…
Climate change is corrupting Bangladesh tea — the low-lying nation has a great tea growing industry, but the warming temperatures with less rain not only stumps growth, but can alter the flavor. From Aljazeera English and a tea harvester: “There is less clouds in the sky than before. Too much sun, which isn’t good for…
Modern life isn’t what we figured a generation ago. The world is way-more high-strung, more anxiety-filled and dangerous. Just yesterday a couple of horrible tragedies — in Texas seven people were found shot to death in an apartment: The seven, believed to be related, were apparently in the process of opening Christmas gifts or had…
Tis the season for the big lie. Infamous fabricator Stephen Glass is now after a lawyer’s job — off ‘Shattered Glass‘ fame, he made up stories at the New Republic during the late 1990s and was fired, displaying a major-tendency to lie at the drop of a vowel. Adam Penenberg, who outed Glass as a…
Last night on CBS News, an interview with US Defense head Leon Panetta took place on what’s called “the doomsday plane,” a modified Boeing 747, termed an E-4B by the miltary, and tricked out with a shitload of science-fiction-sounding gear to aid in evading a Judgment-Day scenario. Panetta’s blubberings as usual were nonsensical, but the…
US peoples are already sick of next year’s political rodeo. A majority chunk of Americans want the 2012 presidential campaign, readying to blast away in less than a month, to be over already — nearly triple the poor souls that can’t wait for the politicking to begin. From Gallup (h/t Wonkette): With the Jan. 3…
One of the more-mysterious assholes on earth is dead — Kim Jong Il, the self-styled “Dear Leader” of North Korea died of a heart attack it was reported last night or early this morning. The guy reportedly has been dead two days and passed while hard at work: A tearful broadcaster reported that Kim died…
(Illustration found here). In reality, a picture is indeed worth a shitload of words. One haunting face, that 4-year-old Iraqi kid — the above photo has been on Google Images for years, and has always caused me to hurt whenever I spotted it (used it a couple of times on blog posts to epitomize, or…
Opened with a big bang — ‘shock and awe’ — and closed with a deceitful shudder. The US ended its military misadventure on Iraq yesterday awash in bullshit. Leon Panetta has got to be one of the most disingenuous and hypocritical assholes this side of Newt Gingrich, claiming the Iraqi debacle was worth the price…
Announce that whatever new approach the U.S. decides on, the U.S. is doing so on a trial basis. This will give us the ability to readjust and move to another course, if necessary, and therefore not “lose.†— Donald H. Rumsfeld memorandum, Nov. 6, 2006 (Illustration found here). In the annuals of world history there’s…