22 Years Later
September 11, 2023Today 22 years ago was a Tuesday. And a swift change of direction for America, and the world. Of course, this day a couple of decades and change ago, we really didn’t understand just how…
Category Archives: 9/11
Time Melt Iraq — Day One Of ‘Bush Lied, People Died’ 20 Years Later
March 20, 2023Today is the first day of Spring 2023, and also the 20th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion. (Illustration: US Marines in northern Kuwait assembling to invade Iraq; photograph found here.) How those two events combine…
Melting-Like Force In Way-Deep Space — A Respite From Earthly Terror
May 30, 2022(Illustration: Various galaxies of the Virgo Supercluster, grouped and clustered together, and found here). Beyond mass shootings and war crimes, how about a little way-out space shit this Monday morning to loose the bonds of…
GW Bush Still An Idiot — And Still A War Criminal
May 19, 2022(Illustration out front: ‘The Three Amigos,’ and found here). An idiot remains an idiot despite the whitewash, and even with the incense burning tattering holes in history books. When this blog first appeared 15 years…
Colin Powell And COVID — Also War Crimes
October 18, 2021Colin Powell died earlier today — as I’m sure you now know — he was 84 and lived a high-flying military life. Despite all the achievements, he will be remembered most/best for lying at the…
Nine/Eleven — 20 Years Of Crippling History
September 11, 2021Cool and way-comfortable this mid-day Saturday in California’s Central Valley after a week of triple-digit temperatures and real-heavy air — a day of national remembrance of horrific airliner attacks on the World Trade Center and…
Afghan Agony: One Final US Drone Mistake Massacre
September 10, 2021(Illustration: ‘MQ-9 Reaper,’ digital artwork by Tommy Anderson, and found here). Oddly and horribly ironic on the eve of one of America’s near-sacred, modern anniversaries, a report today the military drone strike last month in…
Nine/Eleven: The Day Before — ‘Unless There’s A War’
September 10, 2021(Illustration: Untitled (1981), by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and found here). Today 20 years ago was a Monday. Although I’ve tried to remember how that particular day felt, other than another beautiful day in San Luis Obispo,…