War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Even as quick downloads of extreme weather have become the ‘new normal‘ in the US — baseball-size hail yesterday in Nebraska, and drought conditions have spread to 12 percent of the country — and even as more reports come about global warming, any kind of fix is near-about impossible. A major problem is the blow-hole…
Even as big chunks of planet earth have undergone some extreme weather recently — right now there’s a climate-change-influenced furnace blistering the US heartland — some dumb-ass, and way-dangerous people have continued to deny the obvious, with the latest flack coming from GOP nit-twits who think they should be president. And, really, for some crazed…
One of the most-profound problems of humankind is the inability to see no tomorrow — or at least a tomorrow so unlike today. Life continues burns in the soul. Not so fast there, Sherlock. Humanity loves delusion if the alternative is unthinkable. Yet even as the morning starts to break here on California’s northern coast,…
(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,…
Lawyers apparently have always been legal assholes. From Roman third-century lawyer, Ulpian, on torture: “The strong will resist and the weak will say anything to end the pain.” Yet to torture is a righteous path: “…the torment and suffering of the body in order to elicit the truth.” Despite the recorded fact that torture does…
Always a skeptic, and although never a doubt about global warming, the speed in which this shit will strike hard at everyone’s daily lives has always seemed a bit understated. Report after report, study after study indicated the real mess of climate change will come in the future — somewhere down the line in 2020,…
Apart from the natural horror seemingly occurring daily in the US midwest — 126 have been confirmed dead in Joplin, MO, while another 232 are reported still missing — another horror, the dumb-ass world on terror continues without rhyme or reason, but a whole-lot of dying. Two huge IEDs exploded one-after-another in Afghanistan on Thursday,…
Overburdened or maybe in need of more war? (Illustration found here). After the killing of Osama bin Laden, about any near-sane person would recommend a kind of slow down in the worldwide war on terror, at least allow US GIs some breathing room — and not just taking a quick break loaded down with equipment…
By far, the biggest problem facing this good earth is climate change and the horrible consequences of humanity’s greed is right now plying its whirlwind. As I type these words in the wee hours of Monday morning, folks in Memphis, Tennessee, are trying to get a handle on a Mississippi River that’s experienced a 600…
We can all rest much, much easier as Jackboot John McCain has his slippers fast on the ground in Libya: Aljazeera ‘s Sue Turton, reporting from Benghazi, said McCain told reporters he was there to meet the Transitional National Council and members of the military to assess the situation on the ground. He also denied…