Nine-Eleven-Eleven
September 11, 2011Watching 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…
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Food Commemoration
September 9, 2011As US peoples get ready to wallow in way-much sob-worthy self-agony for the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center attack, other peoples are dying like gnats and flies — literally. As horrific and criminally…
Enhanced Lying
September 6, 2011In the wake of the more-recent events in Libya, the world wants to know much-more about the US CIA’s nefarious so-called ‘rendition‘ program, which led to all those “black sites” in at least seven countries where…
Economic War Jobs
September 4, 2011(Illustration found here). “The economy makes it really tough right now,” said (Tyler) Mitchell. “People say, ‘You go to college, you get a degree, you’ll get a great job.’ Well nowadays, I don’t really think…
Pump Dump
September 3, 2011After my weekly visit to the laundromat this morning, I put another $20 worth of gas in my old Jeep, this time the price per gallon was back to near-about standard: $4.09 — a dime…
Here We Go Again
September 2, 2011Just as tropical storm warnings were issued Friday for the Gulf of Mexico, there’s come reports the infamous BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster is coming back to life. There’s reports oil is leaking from the…
‘Exploding Brains” — Cont.
August 29, 2011Continuing the literary realism of a war zone from earlier: This hard and brutal story during Irene’s turmoil this weekend. An Army Ranger captain supposedly killed four people in two states, one a young boy,…
‘Exploding’ Brains — Re-Writing History
August 29, 2011“I didn’t set out to embarrass the president or not embarrass the president,’’ Cheney told Gangel. “If you look at the book, there are many places in it where I say some very fine things…
GOP — ‘Seriously Haywire’
August 26, 2011Even as natural disasters confront the US at every turn — this morning Hurricane Irene is bearing down on the Eastern Seaboard, where a lot of folks are still recovering from an near-unprecedented earthquake a…
Big Bro, Indeed
August 23, 2011“Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.” — John Lennon (The FBI assembled around 300 pages of files on John Lennon in 1971-72, part of President Nixon’s effort to…