War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration: ‘Map by W.H. Payne, Published by Letts, Son & Co. 19–. Geography and Map Division,’ and found here). When I started this bog, ‘Compatible Creatures,’ more than 14 years ago — April 2007 — the near-daily absolute-main-topic was war. Two of them, in fact. Afghanistan at the time was closing in on its sixth…
A shitload of news already this Thursday, and we’re just at mid-morning right now. Most of the shit is depressing and there’s some weird mixed-in, though, as a country based on the optics we’ve in for a rough road ahead. Almost all of news items can be directly/indirectly traced to chaos/bullshit coming from the bowels…
Of course, the over-domineering news story this morning is the Joe Biden/Vladimir Putin meeting at an 18th-century stately home on Switzerland’s Lake Geneva, and according to most of the reports I’ve seen so far, seemed to go off without any kind noticable problem or controversy. The face-to-face lasted about three hours, and was supposedly to…
Although Joe Biden has called-out T-Rump by name before (albeit just, “this guy“), he went hard and heavy against the orange-turded asshole today in a press conference in Belgium, while also sticking GQPers-feet to the collective fire: Story via the Guardian‘s live blog this afternoon: In a wide-ranging press conference in Brussels, Joe Biden did…
Joe Biden is killing it overseas right now — and that’s in a show-biz, Urban Dictionary, ‘performing at the highest level‘ type phrase, and not the Mafia-T-Rump locution — in a so-far, way-successful mission to build-back-better America’s standing on the world stage. After palling with chancellors, prime ministers and presidents involved with the three-day G7…
Finally, the time has come — if you’ve been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 the CDC announced today you don’t have to wear a mask, or even social distance yourself if you’re indoors, a heart-felt move toward more-fully opening society. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said at a briefing this afternoon: ‘“We have all longed for this…
In the midst of a pile of political shit, the workings of Republicans today once again proved how incredibly unhinged they’ve become, and how anti-American their entire operation is focused — nothing for the people and way-everything for the party, all obvious to everyone. MoscowMitch flashback: Dumb-ass story via CNN this afternoon: President Joe Biden…
Joe Biden’s speech last night to a joint session of Congress was a way-apparent success and a BFD — one of those orations that not only sits well in the mind, but had enough bite to float in the memory for awhile. Not only the image of two females behind him on the dias, but…
As Joe Biden gets ready to make his first speech to a joint session of Congress tonight, rolling with a theme of “America is on the move again,” there’s a bit of history, too: ‘He’ll deliver a speech more than a year into the pandemic with the smallest audience in recent memory and a backdrop…
Joe Biden continues, even connecting with the hard-to-handle youngsters: Good vibes from young people it seems, despite some heavy shit going down — notable snips from the Harvard Youth Poll released today: In the fall of 2017, only 31-percent of young Americans said they were hopeful about the future of America; 67-percent were fearful. Nearly…
