War — Stupid is as Stupid Farce
April 6, 2011An example of the fiscal foolishness of war. From Stars and Stripes: The Air Force secretary says the service has been spending about $4 million a day to keep 50 fighter jets and nearly 40…
Category Archives: Bullshit
Quick Bleed — Techno Collapse
April 3, 2011An interesting post from Australian writer on peak oil, Cameron Leckie, on the most-interesting concept of catabolic collapse, and how this view of the inevitable failure of complex systems affects/effects our current world — a…
Krugman at 4 AM — Hey, They’re Orwelling My Privates!
March 28, 2011As these modern times gets more complicated, the ability of government to stare way-down into your bowels to catch a terrorist turd has come a long way, baby, and the future of freedom doesn’t appear…
Heartless Hawkers
March 25, 2011Unlike many other countries on the planet, at least the ones who claim some form of freedom, a great obstacle facing US peoples is not the economy (though, it is terrible), nature or even some…
Careful With The Monkey, He’s Armed
March 16, 2011Surrealism is alive and well in Japan. Early Wednesday, according to CNN, Japanese authorities found traces of radiation in tap water in Fukushima city, 50 miles from the nuclear plant at Daiichi — odd, however,…
‘Acid Test’
March 9, 2011“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.“ –Â Bill Copeland (Illustration found here). In an interview Tuesday in the New York Times, David Petraeus blew smoke up the ass of history, a procedure…
Predicament — Economic Breakdown While ‘Folks at the top are not concerned with the underlying deterioration of America’
March 8, 2011Don’t we all like surprises: In a move unexpected — after a visit just two weeks ago with the same crowd — US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will pop over to Germany today and then…
Backwards Back-Stabbing: ‘Keep the ball rolling’
March 1, 2011What the shit is the US doing, thinking? Even after nearly a decade on the ground in Afghanistan, the war there has gone beyond insane. (Illustration found here). Warfare should have at least some semblance…
Readin’ Writin’ with Stomach Churnin’
February 28, 2011As the protests across the US against GOP governmental operations — Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, and on and on — gain momentum against the budget-busting, don’t-give-a-shit attitude of right-wing politicans whose exploits fly in the…
War Crimes
February 25, 2011“I believe the real looting of Iraq after the invasion was by US officials and contractors, and not by people from the slums of Baghdad,†said one US businessman active in Iraq since 2003. —…