Liars and Other Assholes
December 21, 2011Tis the season for the big lie. Infamous fabricator Stephen Glass is now after a lawyer’s job — off ‘Shattered Glass‘ fame, he made up stories at the New Republic during the late 1990s and…
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Gloom Before the Doom
December 20, 2011Last night on CBS News, an interview with US Defense head Leon Panetta took place on what’s called “the doomsday plane,” a modified Boeing 747, termed an E-4B by the miltary, and tricked out with…
The ‘Fretful Zone’
November 19, 2011Headline-writers at the New York Times found a verb this morning in the middle of the third graph of a story on the US Census Bureau and its new measure of gauging just how bad the…
Ugly Is As Ugly Does
October 19, 2011(Illustration found here). Nowadays, don’t US politics — and politics in general — make you sick to your bowels? In the midst of most-likely the biggest, nastiest, piece-of-shit economic condition since I-don’t-know-when (common term, ‘not…
Heedful Not
October 16, 2011Update Below A good piece this morning in the New York Times, illustrating why global peoples are in for some way-hard, climate-change-days due to the fact that although nearly every other nation accepts climate change…
Captivating Conundrum
October 1, 2011Everyday appears a mystery, and the mystery more wonderful. ‘Light at dawn, shone through clouds, thick with weather. Even in the gray a beauty of quiet, potent perplexity Awaiting this day. A most-astonishing sight.’ Poetry…
Crazed
September 23, 2011Life has become back-ass backwards: Obese people now outnumber the hungry globally, but hardship for the undernourished is increasing amid a growing food crisis, the International Federation of the Red Cross warned on Thursday. ……
Smiley Faces
September 19, 2011From 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…
A Decade of Poo
September 5, 2011Coming upon the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, the stories are starting to pile up on the history of it all, though, the biggest single reminder of that event can be seen nowadays and…
Blow-Back to Collapse
August 31, 2011Order was being attempted in the northeastern US this morning as peoples work their way out of the massive natural disaster called Hurricane Irene — Vermont, New Jersey and upstate New York are flooding nearly…