War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Politics/Elections were in the cutting wind this weekend — President Obama kicked-off his re-run for the White House yesterday, now moving ‘Forward,’ mostly-due to the terrifying fact “…we can’t turn back now,” while across the ocean, six European nations are holding ballot-box shit today, including France’s voting whether they should glide left, or remain mon…
(Illustration found here). A deeply-beautiful afternoon on California’s northern coast — finally after what’s seem like weeks and weeks of rain in various forms, so far, appears like we will get a full-day’s worth of sun, and, there’s not much wind, so it’s about as good as it gets up here. A lawn mower bangs…
Standing on the corner Suitcase in my hand Jack is in his corset and jane is in her vest And me I’m in a rock and roll band Riding in a stutz bearcat jim Those were different times And the poets studied rules of verse And all the ladies rolled there eyes Sweet jane Sweet…
(Illustration: ‘Burning of Colours‘ by Wojciech Kossak found here via Google Images). After more than three months, Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace‘Â is finally finished — and to reveal how good a read it’s been, I hated for the book to end, even as the once-big-lump of pages fluttered down to a few thin sheets,…
This story from last week (via Forbes): Federal safety officials are investigating a report that two planes landed at Reagan National Airport without control tower clearance because the air traffic controller was asleep. An aviation official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the incident, said the single controller — a supervisor — was…
(Illustration found here). “Dawn“Â by Miss Emily Dickinson When night is almost done, And sunrise grows so near That we can touch the spaces, It ‘s time to smooth the hair And get the dimples ready, And wonder we could care For that old faded midnight That frightened but an hour. Another day, another time…
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…