Category Archives: Barack Obama

Presidents’ Day Stink Ranking — T-Rump Dead-Skunk-Smell Last! (UPDATE: Joe Biden/Abe Lincoln Connection)

February 19, 2024

Sunshine in the midst of some big, billowing clouds this near-noon Monday here in California’s Central Valley — despite another atmospheric river crashing into the state again, we’re most likely in waiting for bad weather…

Obama: ‘Birtherism’ Is From ‘The Good Old Days’ … ‘Now, It Doesn’t Even Make It To The Top Ten List Of Crazy’

October 29, 2022

Weekend is slow to the news cycle this Saturday afternoon. Still, politics continue to blare itself onto the media, thusly onto us the doomscrolling addicts of bad shit, but for now, most of that nasty…

Obama At COP26: ‘Nowhere Near Where We Need To Be’

November 8, 2021

Dark overcast this late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley — rain maybe tonight and in the morning. Barack Obama spoke today at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, and despite being enthusiastically applauded,…

Afghan Agony: Media Madness

August 16, 2021

(Illustration: ‘The Three Amigos‘ — Dick Cheney, GW Bush, Donald Rumsfeld — found here). Afghanistan continues to flame the news cycle into the afternoon — and the shit in the airwaves is poor. History and…

Afghan Agony: Final Scream

August 15, 2021

Quick pace of the end game was astonishing — banner headlines at news outlets this Sunday afternoon: ‘Afghan Government Falls‘ (CNN); ‘Afghanistan Falls To Taliban‘ (The Washington Post); ‘Taliban Seize Afghanistan; US Scrambles To Evacuate…