Occupy Earth — Maybe Not
October 18, 2011Even as the wide-spreading Occupy Wall Street movement enters its second month, a major protest point has been nearly forgotten, or at least hasn’t been placed near/at the top of the list — climate change.…
Category Archives: Bullshit
Rage Against The Assholes
October 17, 2011Such a great graph — and a great h/t The Big Picture. (Illustration found here). I hope the graph is readable — if not, it originates from Spiegel Online at the link just above. One…
Partisan Not!
October 15, 2011(Illustration found here). As the entire world gears itself into the mesh of the Occupy Wall Street movement today — marching on Broadway en route to police headquarters last month, the photo above depicts the…
Twisted Tales
October 13, 2011Another version of an international tall tale popped up this week with the initially alarming news of an official Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador at a DC restaurant via Mexican drug cartel gunmen.…
Oil and ‘Oy vey’ the GOP
October 12, 2011Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep with the pump price down now to $3.99 a gallon for regular — a dime drop since the last time we visited a…
Sad Sack
October 9, 2011One thing that aggravates me to no end is George Jr. — the man can’t really disappear because of all the horror he left behind haunts the entire planet. Now he’s afraid US troops don’t…
Dead, Disastrous Decade
October 7, 2011Mr. Bush had belittled “nation building†while campaigning for president 18 months earlier. But aware that Afghans had felt abandoned before, including by his father’s administration after the Soviets left in 1989, he vowed to…
Toll of Endless War
October 5, 2011“How can we let this happen? How is that acceptable in the United States of America? The answer is, it’s not. It’s an outrage. And it’s a betrayal — a betrayal — of the ideals…
‘…the plan is to win…’
October 4, 2011Nearly as Pink Floyd intoned more than 30 years ago: “Is Anybody Out There?” the noted follow-up nowadays: Is anybody listening, or paying attention? A surge is rippling through US financial districts as the Occupy…
Just Plain Gall vs Unmitigated Gall
October 3, 2011In the last few years there’s been a momentous outburst of gall — the audacity of some people to bullshit despite incredible evidence to the contrary — which has touched just about every aspect of…