War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Peter: Let me ask you something. When you come in on Mondays, and you’re not feeling too well, does anybody ever come up to you and say “sounds like someone’s got a case of the Mondays”? Lawrence: No. No, man, shit, no, man. I believe you’d get your ass kicked for sayin’ something like that,…
While the northern California coastline continues its monotonous weather — Rain showers and isolated thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms may produce small hail — the US Upper Midwest is way-beyond the quiet isolated thunderstorm routine with a record-level snowpack. Dr. Jeff Masters has a most-excellent post at Wunderblog on the situation: National Weather Service models show this…
Unlike many other countries on the planet, at least the ones who claim some form of freedom, a great obstacle facing US peoples is not the economy (though, it is terrible), nature or even some horrific wars, but the heartless, self-centered shitheads to the right of the political center. Yeah, that’s right, Republicans, Tea Baggers,…
In a modern world gone dangerously bat-shit crazy, maybe happiness is indeed a warm gun. As we ponder Japan getting radiated — workers were still trying this early morning to water down the exposed spent fuel rods in the Fukushima plants, but horrific shit is still moving closer and closer to an out-of-control mode —…
UPDATE: Another example of corporate misleading, BP-like stonewalling in allowing the real truth of dangerous matters out to the public — from the NYT: On Sunday, Kumiko Fukaya, 48, who fled the area with several family members, she had been lulled into a false sense of complacency at the nearby plants, which she said had…
Monday morning is bullshit poem. I was happy this morning, as I woke up in bed, Then realized it was Monday and I faced the day with dread, For somehow, whatever comes my way, my temper is displayed, Just mentioning ‘it’s Monday’, my nerves, they become frayed. The day will be just a ‘ write…
“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.” – George Orwell, 1984 (Illustration found here). The US Department of Homeland Security (a near-perfect Orwellian title) via its Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in a $3.5 million study is seeking…
A good, quick guide for keeping track; from CNNMoney: The spike in oil last week could translate to an increase in gas prices of 37 cents per gallon in the coming weeks, according Moody’s Analytics economist Chris Lafakis. He estimates that for every $1 increase in the price of oil, retail gas prices typically rise…
(Illustration found here). The abstract from a new study via Tellus: The thaw and release of carbon currently frozen in permafrost will increase atmospheric CO2 concentrations and amplify surface warming to initiate a positive permafrost carbon feedback (PCF) on climate. … By 2200, we predict a 29–59% decrease in permafrost area and a 53–97 cm…
As life continues to unravel, peoples of my age have come to realize the lie of the so-called ‘Great American Dream‘ — the future looks like shit. From the Wall Street Journal on Saturday: The retirement savings plans that many baby boomers thought would see them through old age are falling short in many cases.…