War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
One of the great turds of the US political system, Sen. James Inhofe, yes, that silly-assed Republican from Oklahoma, displayed a most-marvelous bit of horror-irony this week as he tweaked the future and all those to come after us. Inhofe is a major big-mouth-crybaby global-warming denier — appears a fairly ignorant man. And with the Copenhagen climate…
“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that you really want to say.” — Mark Twain’s Notebook, 1902-1903 Writing in this modern age is still the same as in Twain’s day, only quicker…
Home is not the castle so trumped years ago — now it’s nothing more than a file in the immoral portfolio of US banking’s financial system. A system that’s so skewed you can’t tell the front door from the back. McClatchy has another story on that ugly, nasty piece of shit called Goldman Sachs. Goldman…
Nearly 50 years have passed since that fateful day in Dallas when JFK was assassinated, and now some new insights have surfaced into those few precious moments in the abrupt transition of presidential power — and it ain’t macho. In a new book on the November 1963 event, The Kennedy Assassination–24 Hours After: Lyndon B.…
Climate-change study and an ultimate understanding of future global weather appears fickle at best, and way off the mark at worst — in the last two years the big global-warming news is negative factors “have been significantly underestimated…” In this particular case it’s methane gas, which is not only produced by landfill sites, fossil fuel…
End of the week and bad war-related shit. Beyond the US domestic horror of Joe Lieberman, military exercises in the Middle East are becoming way-more frightening than any paranormal or blair-witch fantasy could envision, creating a deep hole-drain in anything that remains of a moral fiber in the facade of a so-called American Ideal. The…
There’s little doubt we’re alive in one of the most-interesting periods in world history as all kinds of nefarious enterprises are starting to come to real-bad fruition — unlike other past-historical upheavals, however (there’s a shitload of these chaos-in-civilization scenarios), we’ll be able to practically watch it unfold right before our collective eyeballs — and…
Journalists covering the White House, especially those from TV, sometimes tend to think of themselves as above the crowd, as better than the average asshole reporter digging for stories down in the trenches. As Nadia Bilbassy, White House correspondent for the Dubai-based satellite TV network MBC, told Think Progress last month: I found that I think…
Friday morning shocker: President Obama has has won the Nobel Peace Prize — “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.†And the Nobel Committee added: “He has created a new international climate.” (Illustration found here). This will indeed piss-way-off the GOP and all wingnuts as the award comes much, much early…
There’s something I just don’t understand regarding climate change/global warming, although there’s plenty of opinions (Truism — opinions are like assholes, everybody’s got one) about this horrifying weather/sky/ground/ocean-related event barreling square at humanity, and with seemingly a lot of multi-verified science to warrant near panic — Why isn’t climate change taken more seriously? Does many…