Couple of Dicks Named Rick
January 9, 2012On occasion being ‘under the weather’ can cut some of life’s tangled problems loose as when one is sick, nothing else matters but being sick. So, I paid scant attention to the two neurotic GOP…
Category Archives: Bullshit
‘Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain’
January 3, 2012Finally and officially, the 2012 political bullshit starts today. Republicans are gathered like hogs at the trough as the Iowa caucuses gather to select somebody to head the GOP into November, but there’s a long,…
Fog of Truth — ‘Bugsplat’
January 2, 2012As the new year grinds on, politics has taken the edge off the nearly unnoticed pullout of US troops from Iraq, ending a segment in one of the most-horrible of episodes. And the most lied…
Twelve Months Later…
December 31, 2011In case you didn’t know already, this is the last evening of 2011. And if you didn’t have your collective head up your collective ass, you know the past 12 months have been shitsville. “There…
‘Bluster’ — Oil and Water Mix
December 29, 2011A few days ago, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep, and this time the pump price had dropped six cents since the last gas-station visit, down to $3.83 a gallon…
Table Scraps
December 24, 2011Just surfing the news this early Saturday morning, which dawned like a warehouse-of-other-Saturdays, though some would gullibly think it special, and rightly so, mainly due to the nasty fact it’s been so proclaimed for so…
‘I am a fat cat, I’m not ashamed,’
December 22, 2011(Illustration found here). In one of the most ironic and laughingly insulting remarks of the political year came yesterday from US Speaker of the House John ‘The Boner’ Boehner: “We’re here. We’re ready to work,”…
Liars and Other Assholes
December 21, 2011Tis the season for the big lie. Infamous fabricator Stephen Glass is now after a lawyer’s job — off ‘Shattered Glass‘ fame, he made up stories at the New Republic during the late 1990s and…
Reality of the Reality
December 18, 2011(Illustration found here). In reality, a picture is indeed worth a shitload of words. One haunting face, that 4-year-old Iraqi kid — the above photo has been on Google Images for years, and has always…
‘Just a cost of doing business’
December 16, 2011Opened with a big bang — ‘shock and awe’ — and closed with a deceitful shudder. The US ended its military misadventure on Iraq yesterday awash in bullshit. Leon Panetta has got to be one…