NIE — Doublespeak Dreaming
December 12, 2010UPDATE BELOW Orwellian coin: Winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to…
Category Archives: Bullshit
Common Canker
December 9, 2010In an age of near-total uncertainty, there’s an upswing of ugly sweaters for the holidays and a worldwide view of a growing, unstoppable corruption. (Illustration found here). A survey for the times — 60 percent…
‘Chicken Crap’
December 3, 2010(Illustration found here). Yesterday from the mouth of the heartless insane — via UPI: U.S. Rep. John Boehner, the incoming House speaker, described a Democratic move Thursday to limit the extension of the Bush tax…
Shame on Change
December 2, 2010In the beginning, Barack Obama carried a big bucket of change — change he claimed all of us could really, really believe in and live with as we moved onward into that most-wonderful future. My…
‘Opportunity’ — Why the Afghan War is Doomed
November 30, 2010The US and its nit-witted NATO allies should pack up and leave Afghanistan right now — right here and now. And this terrible incident might be a major culprit (among a shitload of others). From the…
Celebrate Slaughter Day
November 25, 2010Another day set aside for perpetual lying. (Illustration found here). As always, Mark Twain notedly recorded the festivities: “Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people…
Cry America, Cry In Shame
November 21, 2010(Illustration found here). The good-ole US of A has gone to shit in a wire basket. Or have we been in the shitter a long, long time — take the case of the so-called Great…
War Far Beyond The Beyond
November 18, 2010The so-called war in Afghanistan will apparently never end. Just when one thinks there’s a light at the end of the IED-blasted tunnel, it turns out the flicker is just military commanders flicking their Bics.…
Groping for Bombers
November 17, 2010Osama bin Laden has to be way-laughing through his terror-obstructed ass. (Illustration found here). Air travel in the US can be a pain in the nut-sack. American traveler John Tyner unloaded a notorious phrase this…
Eyewitness to a Botched War
November 15, 2010(Illustration found here). The situation in Afghanistan has gone from real-bad, to worse, to down-right shitty. Eleven NATO troops were killed over the weekend — seven on Saturday — bringing the ugly total to 32…