A peep-hole into the soul of government can be witnessed during this mad-cap debt ceiling bullshit — one can see just how far a small, small portion of the population can near-about bring down a…
There’s an absolute truism in the saying, ‘What Comes Around, Goes Around,” albeit for the vast amount time, we never see or feel this effect — what you do today will show up tomorrow. Open…
(Illustration found here). Dawn is still about 90 minutes away here on California’s northern coastline, and a thick Pacific fog compels this little corner of a world-gone-utterly bonkers to remain quiet and still. And bonkers…
“Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.” — Lily Tomlin (Illustration found here).…
New US DOD honcho Leon Panetta opened his big yap last week and blubbered to the troops in Iraq that they were there “because on 9/11 the United States got attacked,” but he, of course,…
In a horrid news cycle where events fill the airwaves no matter the content — i.e., currently Casey Anthony and the US debt ceiling debate/debacle — blanket everything else, including the ongoing wars all over…
(Illustration found here). Even beyond the way-hot weather in the central and eastern US, the disastrous wars all over the globe, and finally even beyond Casey Anthony, the news tearing at the very tattered fabric…
Lawyers apparently have always been legal assholes. From Roman third-century lawyer, Ulpian, on torture: “The strong will resist and the weak will say anything to end the pain.” Yet to torture is a righteous path:…
Last night, I started reading Jeffrey Archer’s ‘The Fourth Estate,’ a big-fat novel about a couple of apparent Rupert-Murdoch-kind of assholes trying to control the world, and in the words off the back cover, an…
One of the way-great disappointments in US history is Barack Obama, growing from ‘yes, we can’ to ‘no way’ in the space of a finger snap. Most likely, a great reason for the depressed anxiety…