Watershed Year
December 12, 2010(Note: This is a re-post of mine from three years ago, and with an end of the year coming again, appropriate. The original piece appeared here on Dec. 30, 2007. And yes, indeed, 2008 was…
Category Archives: History
‘Give Us A Kiss’
December 8, 2010This evening 30 years ago, John Lennon was shot dead — a shock end to an era. In this an iconic anniversary for an icon, a lot of media attention will focus on Lennon’s years…
Pride & Prejudice
December 7, 2010One of the most compelling, thought-provoking and candid assessments on the state of the planet came this week from a Native American educator, who bares the reality of both history and the terror of nowadays.…
Afghan War Degenerating — Worse than Vietnam?
November 24, 2010There’s a joke I tell people sometimes about my cigarette-smoking habit: “Worse dumb-ass thing I’ve ever done — next to being married twice.” (Illustration found here). Afghanistan has never, ever been any kind of a…
Hot Box
November 16, 2010In just a few words, the current plight of mankind: “It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now…
GTO Gone
October 31, 2010Little GTO, you’re really lookin’ fine Three deuces and a four-speed and a 389 Listen to her tachin’ up now, listen to her why-ee-eye-ine C’mon and turn it on, wind it up, blow it out…
Wiki, Wiki
October 23, 2010In the release by WikiLeaks of its batch of Iraq war logs Friday, and a quick, rapid look-see, the biggest sense is of frustration, and a tightening of the conscience, in the horror and misery…
In the Sweet By-and-By
October 17, 2010The future has been downloaded into just about right now. “If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs,…
Fear Part Deux
October 9, 2010Fear is a soft sounding word, nothing scary about it, at least until some circumstance is attached. Last week, my first post on fear concerned the quiet, unassuming fright in the storing of mega-dangerous spent nuclear…
A Known Known
September 21, 2010(Added stuff below) News this morning that one of the great assholes of our time (on the rock-face with Dick Cheney), damn-dumb Don Rumsfeld, will release his “autobiography” early next year and will tell the…