War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Clear and chilly this early Friday morning on California’s northern coast — nice now but we’re supposed to have about a week’s worth of rain starting sometime today. Weather is part of our living environment, just as is this laptop, but way more violent (as long as you stay off Fox News). As we way-quickly…
One crucial element off the World Trade Center attacks was fright, and from this fear arose a desire coupled with the technical ability to scrutinize perceived enemies, real or maybe politically imagined. The ongoing David Petraeus freak show details how this shit can morph into something way different — and all US peoples should beware…
Even now after nearly half-a-century, one Vietnam vet still works to get a grip: Wright died in 1968 when he stepped on a land mine, Atwood said, and Wright’s mother always blamed him for her son’s death. He’s never been able to bring himself to visit his friend’s grave, he said. On Saturday he found…
(Illustration found here). One must not ever forget that white of all the colors of mankind has down through history been the most nefarious, throat-slashing assholes ever, just look at the US — white men came to these shores and then moved west, killing every living non-white thing that didn’t already roll over and play…
Clear as a bell this election-day morning here along California’s northern coast with a half moon hung high in the heavens — the sound of the Pacific rolls easily to the ears. Not so across the US as polling stations open and Americans ready themselves to press the lever, bringing to an end a long,…
A must-see for the continuing horror facing people in the wake of Hurricane Sandy — sixty BuzzFeed pix displaying why they need great help. And speaking of help: Thousands and thousands of pounds of clothes were being sorted, labeled, and distributed, and valuable supplies like heaters and generators were being loaded up in cars to…
Messing with time is crazy — only makes any life-sequence all the more elusive. Forgot about the Daylight Saving switch-a-roo last night, got up an hour earlier and although I’d slept all I could, the very fact it was way-too soon, but still late, created a glitch in the matrix. Joe BidenĂ‚Â timed it right yesterday:…
(Illustration found here). Even as a tiny, little shit — vs an old shit now — I’ve always been a full-blown movie nut. In countless darkened theaters as flickering images played across gigantic screens, these episodes in fantasy seemed to remove me from a world I couldn’t understand, or maybe didn’t want to, and created…
One of the great — and most-horrifying — paradoxes of our time is the destructive cycle of humanity’s obsession with oil and its by-products, way-most-notably, gasoline. A vivid illustration of this phenomenon is the picture at left of a gas station in New Jersey (photo found here), just one of dozens like it across the…
Another Halloween, but slapped hard by nature — there’s a few million US people who won’t be prowling the streets tonight seeking after treats. The trick will be to crawl through Hurricane Sandy’s rubble and stay alive. Warm and appears like it’s about to rain up here along northern California’s coastline, with the operative word…