Category Archives: History

Disembodied Dick

November 5, 2015

Overcast with occasionally some faded-yellow sunlight peeking through this Thursday morning on California’s north coast, an environment corresponding to a ‘slight chance‘ of wetness forecast for today, with a supposedly true rainstorm slated for Sunday.…

Another Iraqi Delusion

November 4, 2015

Another news-cycle episode in the never-ending horror-subject of Iraq came with the death announced yesterday of Ahmed Chalabi, the grifter who played the US public for the 2003 invasion. Media coverage on Chalabi dying has…

Nixon — ‘He seemed to hate everybody’

October 13, 2015

In the long, tortured life of us baby boomers, Dick Nixon is the sweating, nefarious crank in our history, always the turd floating across the ages to become the anchor-villain of modern American politics. Apparently…