Compatible Creatures by Bruce Maulden
War, Politics, and Life
‘Peace upon earth!’ was said. We sing it, And pay a million priests to bring it. After two thousand years of mass We’ve got as far as poison-gas. — Christmas: 1924, Thomas Hardy (Illustration found here). In shame, the US has become another asshole nation. Despite the overwhelming evidence to the absolute contrary, the NATO/US…
Just as the new year began, the US war machine’s ultimate killing device reportedly nailed 19 people in Pakistan where drones kept hovering in the skies all most all the day long creating panic and harassment among the residents in North Waziristan. (Illustration found here). And President Obama’s ‘other surge’ has been in drone attacks…
Where are we? And how do we get there from here? (Illustration found here). As horrendous 2010 A.D. swiftly comes to an end, the state of the planet leaves a lot to be desired. According to Wikipedia, ‘innovation‘ comes from the Latin innovationem, a noun of action from innovare: “to renew or change,” from in-…
(Note: To those few readers of this blog I hope you had a decent ‘holiday period, part one.’ I have a great hatred and loathing for anything that’s a lie — the Lottery, our current ‘terror war,’ the entire GOP, Hugh Hefner marrying for love, and among many, many other entities, ‘Christmas’ — and the…
As the Afghanistan experience slithers into the aftershock of a bad acid trip, the war pushers are saying one thing, and doing another — white assholes talking with big, ugly forked tongue. From the Army Times on 18,000 new troops for the Afghan theater: Defense Secretary Robert Gates signed the deployment orders a day after President…
(Illustration found here). A lunar eclipse on winter solstice — first time since 1638. From Wired: The Earth’s shadow will begin to blot out the moon at 1:32 a.m. EST (10:32 p.m. PST). During totality, when the Earth is directly between the moon and the sun, the moon will turn a rusty orange-red for 72…
UPDATES BELOW America as world empire is tottering on the brink — in this modern age of so many different and terrible events are taking shape, the life of the vast majority of US peoples could be quickly coming to an end. All the tell-tale signs are here. The collapse of past empires only came…
A bit of news not played up here in the US: Former Vice President Dick Cheney, known to his friends as just, The Dick, will skate on bribery charges brought forth by Nigeria — The Dick and Halliburton, the company he CEOed for five years before moving on to public service, had been charged with…
Gone is that so-called “light on the hill” and that old-time “huddled masses” routine as the good-old US of A is now known as the hypocritical epicenter of life on the planet — if American authorities can’t arrest you, then you’ll be hunted down like a dog and assassinated, and if you are captured, you’ll…
Life is so funny and hilarious, the bowels scream with laughter. (Illustration found here). Yesterday, the famous last words of Richard Holbrooke, the long-time US diplomat and President Obama’s point man for the Af-Pak theater who died on Monday, were thumped across the Internets: “You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan.” Now, however, quick…