Compatible Creatures by Bruce Maulden
War, Politics, and Life
In a time so awash in dramatic events, especially the last couple of weeks and the debt ceiling/financial markets bombast — worse Wall Street week in three years, the US downgraded from AAA to AA+ — and this morning came reports of 31 US GIs killed in an Afghan helicopter crash, a commemoration of a…
One standing cliche of horror movies is the old trope of the menaced babysitter being scared out of her most-beautiful wits by a killer via telephone calls, which as turns out, are being made “from inside the house.” The just concluded debt ceiling slasher/torture porn production in DC conjures up that same bromide as the…
As the financial clock ticks away on this Friday morn, the political platoons playing pitter-pat in DC and losing the hope of US peoples in our current form of government — if you want to call what’s happening now as government. Why and how were these assholes elected? (Illustration found here). As John ‘The Boner”…
A peep-hole into the soul of government can be witnessed during this mad-cap debt ceiling bullshit — one can see just how far a small, small portion of the population can near-about bring down a country. The crying, finger-pointing, wailing — i.e., John ‘The Boner‘ Boehner telling his beloved own to “get your ass in…
One small glance at just about everything around us creates an Amy-Winehouse-induced sense of the blues, even while living in supposedly the greatest country on earth. As Miss Amy reveals, wealth, fame and all the things in between won’t bring happy to your front door — and as the twits in DC dance around each…
As John ‘The Boner’ Boehner blubbered last night about not “going mano-a-mano with the President of the United States” after trying to refute President Obama on the debt ceiling shit-storm, the mass of US peoples are hurting for work. The Boner and his GOP suck buddies haven’t a clue (or if they do, don’t give…
Greased-nuts-and-bolts and impractical machinery — reality’s pixilated dream of an era coming quickly to an end. Peak oil appears to the naked eye less chaotic than climate change — a not-so-violent soft and gradual approach to cheap energy’s end without the visual horror and/or living through floods, tornadoes, fires, famine and drought as produced by…
(Illustration found here). Dawn is still about 90 minutes away here on California’s northern coastline, and a thick Pacific fog compels this little corner of a world-gone-utterly bonkers to remain quiet and still. And bonkers be it — there’s enough ugly going on right now to either make me so sad I want to cry,…
New US DOD honcho Leon Panetta opened his big yap last week and blubbered to the troops in Iraq that they were there “because on 9/11 the United States got attacked,” but he, of course, was just playing, talking shit to the troops. He backpedaled, or tried to run it back: “I wasn’t saying, you…
(Illustration found here). Upchucking the ‘toon above: The good news is not gay — it’s pretty-much a hard-packed ass, not happy at all. In reality, there’s no good news. As Sunday morning dawns, the news cycle is still Casey Anthony — she was released back into the wild with all kinds of implications amid death…