A Fictional War
August 30, 2011Even as Vermont drowns in its own water, the politics of war still plays on the airwaves, especially after The Dick Cheney made the rounds boasting of his new literary efforts in disengaging the truth from…
Category Archives: Lying
‘Exploding Brains” — Cont.
August 29, 2011Continuing the literary realism of a war zone from earlier: This hard and brutal story during Irene’s turmoil this weekend. An Army Ranger captain supposedly killed four people in two states, one a young boy,…
‘Exploding’ Brains — Re-Writing History
August 29, 2011“I didn’t set out to embarrass the president or not embarrass the president,’’ Cheney told Gangel. “If you look at the book, there are many places in it where I say some very fine things…
Big Bro, Indeed
August 23, 2011“Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.” — John Lennon (The FBI assembled around 300 pages of files on John Lennon in 1971-72, part of President Nixon’s effort to…
GOP Storm-Drains The EPA
August 18, 2011Even as big chunks of planet earth have undergone some extreme weather recently — right now there’s a climate-change-influenced furnace blistering the US heartland — some dumb-ass, and way-dangerous people have continued to deny the…
Bad Boomerang Effect
July 25, 2011There’s an absolute truism in the saying, ‘What Comes Around, Goes Around,” albeit for the vast amount time, we never see or feel this effect — what you do today will show up tomorrow. Open…
Blind-Sided Eye
July 20, 2011New US DOD honcho Leon Panetta opened his big yap last week and blubbered to the troops in Iraq that they were there “because on 9/11 the United States got attacked,” but he, of course,…
Drone On
July 18, 2011In a horrid news cycle where events fill the airwaves no matter the content — i.e., currently Casey Anthony and the US debt ceiling debate/debacle — blanket everything else, including the ongoing wars all over…
The GOP — One Ugly Crowd (And Bat-shit Crazy, Too)
July 1, 2011(Illustration found here). One must always keep in mind when giving any thought to how Republicans govern to this heart-felt comment from mush-faced twit Mitch McConnell from last October: “The single most important thing we…
‘Give Peace a Chance’ — Discredit the Informed
June 17, 2011A lot of the horrific illegal mindset of modern times when it comes to dissent and contrary views to US government has its inglorious roots in the bowels of Dick Nixon. From the New York Times…