Living in the nowadays apparently makes a lot of people scared of just about everything, and the real ‘new normal‘ is the high-abundance of paranoia. And this delusion of persecution, this extreme, irrational distrust of…
“If you don’t want it to be the most expensive year [for gasoline prices,] you’re surreptitiously rooting for an economic debacle.†— Tom Kloza of the Oil Price Information Service (via the Washington Post last…
Despite a near-worldwide call for a stay amid a legal case with an “enormous cloud of doubt,” Troy Davis was executed last night in Georgia, once again showing how the US will kill — Texas…
(Illustration found here). Fifty percent of the US political system is eaten completely up with hardcore dumb ass — and to make it even far worse, apparently that half don’t give a shit. Not only…
From McClatchy Newspapers: Sniping and snide remarks are out on Capitol Hill. Being nice — and seeking common ground, or at least appearing to — is suddenly in. Since returning from their summer recess earlier…
Once in a while, I come across something that both deeply saddens and pisses me off to no frickin’ end. In the horrific display of cold-hearted meaness overflowing in the two recent GOP presidential debates…
malism: The doctrine that this world is evil — (HEADWORD) pessimism. When George Jr. ordered the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 — another decade gone — according to Andrew Kohut, president of the…
Even as US peoples are trying to keep their lives from being sucked down the financial toilet while trying to figure out which GOP presidential candidate is the most half-wit-crazed, attention has been slight on…
In the wake of all the solemn ceremonies this past weekend during the 9/11 commemorations and all the chatter of a possible terrorist attack during the proceedings, the US is still full of fright for…
Watching the ceremonies this morning in New York is way sad — not just for the innocents killed today a decade ago and their families, but also for the naive, near-pompous nationalism inspired by the…