Afghan Affection
November 7, 2014Bright shiny sunshine this afternoon, and a nice warm breeze, too. In the quaking and shuddering over the midterms, one item just a week or so ago seemed to pass without much notice — the…
Category Archives: Lying
Eddie and the Orwellians
October 18, 2014Last paragraph yesterday from a story by Spencer Ackerman at the Guardian about how NSA people do as they please with government technology: Compounding the potential financial conflicts at the NSA, Buzzfeed News reported that…
Iraqi Infliction
October 16, 2014One of the sadly-prolific and ironically-evolving tragedies of these modern times has to be Iraq. The invasion 11 years ago could-be most-easily “the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history,” but for sure, that one single…
Cakewalk Creep — Apache-Chopper Style
October 5, 2014Another slide into some kind of whirlwind war zone once again, the odds are slowly being upped for more American flesh being put on the line in Iraq. Not yet ‘boots on the ground,’ but…
No Country for Old People
October 3, 2014The Global AgeWatch Index, a study on the influence of old folks, reported the worse country in the whole world to grow old in is Afghanistan — a horrible tribute to a lost, terrified country,…
Imperious-Imbecilic Intelligence
September 19, 2014Ground fog, and most-likely way up in the dark, there’s overcast skies here on California’s north coast — Friday morning; and ain’t we just burning the shit right-through September? And 2014? A whole year —…
Cakewalk Creep
September 16, 2014Less than a week ago President Obama screeched the ISIS mission in Iraq “will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.” Today, the president’s top military dog, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the…
Pardon My Ass!
September 8, 2014In the grand slush of news lately, I’d overlooked today’s 40-year anniversary — Gerald Ford’s forgive-and-forget of Dick Nixon. And nearly 40 years later, President Obama did just about the same thing with George Jr.…
Rabbit Holed
August 28, 2014Deep ground fog this early Thursday on California’s north coast — not like just awhile ago when it appeared we might actual receive some sunshine with sunrise. Dawn was nearly clear, even a few sprinkling…
Son of the Daddy
July 31, 2014Once again the normal environs of overcast and fog for us up here on California’s north coast, but at least it’s Thursday and the weekend is near-about in sight. In less than 48 hours… Meanwhile,…