History, Duh!
November 24, 2011“Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for — annually, not oftener — if they had…
Category Archives: Bullshit
‘Danger, Will Robinson’ — It’s The GOP!
November 22, 2011One cannot imagine the uselessness of combating anything of importance with those elected so-called leaders of the near-rudderless US of A — the failure of the “super committee” is the latest example of why mankind…
‘Lone Wolf’ — Update
November 21, 2011(Off my post this morning) The case against that guy arrested in New York City yesterday and charged with plotting to blow up U.S. targets, including American soldiers returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,…
‘Lone Wolf’ in the ‘Twilight Zone’
November 21, 2011The zealous approach to law enforcement in this age of protest and terror has created a strange and dangerous notion that a shitload of stuff is bad, when in reality, bad is self-perpetrating. Last night,…
‘Stupid Says, As Stupid Is’
November 20, 2011My apologies to one of Forrest‘s most-beloved quips, but US politics has become so much more than stupid talking, it’s mean-spirited pure ugly — especially amongst Republicans. Hence, the supposedly GOP presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich…
The ‘Fretful Zone’
November 19, 2011Headline-writers at the New York Times found a verb this morning in the middle of the third graph of a story on the US Census Bureau and its new measure of gauging just how bad the…
OWS — Yes, Yes, Yes!
November 17, 2011Ralph Waldo Emerson, America’s greatest philosopher, visited Thoreau in jail. Emerson asked: “Henry, why are you here?” Thoreau replied: “Why are you not here?” — In protest of the Mexican War, 1846 In those crackdowns…
Reality Unchecked
November 16, 2011Sometimes it’s nauseatingly obvious Republicans have abandoned normal and compassionate discourse and are just blubbering nonsense. On Monday, Republicans allowed health for children to be dipped in a money pie: The spending bill also would…
Vet Deception
November 12, 2011George Jr., always the consummate asshole: “I must say, I’m a little envious. “If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front…
Cluster Crazy
November 11, 2011In the middle of some horrific and nasty events this past week comes a piece of news that really, really sucks — the US has been working quietly behind the scenes to water down the…