War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration found here). Early Tuesday here on California’s northern coast and listening to neighbors act like loud assholes at this early hour makes me want to scream, lash out into the dark, pierce the clear, clean air with a shitload of curses. Although I’ve been awake awhile, and I’m fully awake right now, the disturbance…
Not only do politicians spew forth much bullshit, the organization that’s supposed to separate shit from bull is itself full of crap. US peoples don’t trust journalism: Only one-quarter of those surveyed say news orgs get the facts right, a new low since 1985 when the question was first asked. Two-thirds (66 percent) say stories…
US politics suck really, really bad. Although Bubba Clinton was talking about climate change, he could have been discussing the state of America in the eyes of the whole world via an ugly, laundry-list of dumb-ass crap, from finance to the turmoil in a badly-shod political system — an embarrassing, socially awkward and more-than-pathetic joke.…
Either resigned to fate, or highly naive: Rebecca Sparks, who works at the town’s Barber Shop, says she’s not nervous: “I believe they’d tell us if there was a problem.” Ugly business, nuclear power. Near the top of a long list of really dumb-ass things mankind has done over the ages, the splitting of the…
From McClatchy Newspapers: Sniping and snide remarks are out on Capitol Hill. Being nice — and seeking common ground, or at least appearing to — is suddenly in. Since returning from their summer recess earlier this month, lawmakers have heeded the strong message from an infuriated public: Stop squabbling, fix the economy and act like…
Once in a while, I come across something that both deeply saddens and pisses me off to no frickin’ end. In the horrific display of cold-hearted meaness overflowing in the two recent GOP presidential debates — especially in the infamous incident of the uninsured — comes an effective, and emotionality-charged post at Daily Kos about the…
(Illustration found here). Being poor is getting further down and dirty. In an age where money is getting scarce for those on the bottom rung of the economic ladder, the prospects for any kind of decent future are quickly sucking down the financial drain. On Tuesday, the US Census Bureau released it annual poverty outlook…
In the wake of all the solemn ceremonies this past weekend during the 9/11 commemorations and all the chatter of a possible terrorist attack during the proceedings, the US is still full of fright for that long-armed, snake-in-the-grass called al-Qaeda. Talking TV heads waxed eloquent on how bad the terror group — Jumping Joe Biden…
(Illustration found here). Underwear bomber or not… Airplane toilets were the center of fright on Sunday in two separate incidents on a couple of US flights when passengers and crew got spooked by too much activity in-and-out of the loo. In this age of terror, locking lips in a airborne toilet can be dangerous. From…
(Illustration found here). “The economy makes it really tough right now,” said (Tyler) Mitchell. “People say, ‘You go to college, you get a degree, you’ll get a great job.’ Well nowadays, I don’t really think that’s really the case. You go to college, you get a degree, you get a lot of debt, and you…