War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Less than a week to go before this infamous mid-term election cycle and the twisted political scene reveals some really mean, nasty and bat-shit-crazy people out there. In the 50 years I’ve been personally aware of politics and its meanings, there’s never been a scene so screwed as the 2010 version. There’s an obvious violent…
The future has been downloaded into just about right now. “If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.“ —…
Not! A new Gallup poll indicates a majority of US peoples don’t trust the mass media — Trust in the media is now slightly higher than the record-low trust in the legislative branch but lower than trust in the executive and judicial branches of government, even though trust in all three branches is down sharply…
Lack of friendship is supposedly worse on your well being than a Quadruple Bypass Burger from the Heart Attack Grill. From Reuters on a report released Tuesday by a research team at Brigham Young University: Having good social relationships — friends, marriage or children — may be every bit as important to a healthy lifespan as…
Must-read on the twisted-horror of the US Senate health care bill at FireDogLake. Politics and the human condition.
A few scant seconds can mean the difference between truth and a lie. Such as the case of Desiree Jennings, a 25-year-old training to become a Washington Redskins cheerleader, who has claimed the noted swine-flu vaccine she took last August gave her a rare, but terrible disease. And from that came the “flu girl hoax”…