Quietus, Please
March 4, 2011And it really did come to this: “Oh my God. I’m back. I’m home. All the time, it was… We finally really did it. You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you!” Ah, George…
Category Archives: Madness
Nuclear Exchange: ‘A Real Bummer’
February 26, 2011In the last few years, nuclear war and nuclear weapons has taken somewhat of a back seat to more conventional forms of killing (AK-47s, tanks, etc.) and even to the mega-simple (IEDs), but earlier this…
Guns: ‘I was lucky’
January 12, 2011One of the most amazing items within the horror of the Tucson shooting this past weekend is the abundance of firearms found in the US and how a whole, dumb-ass shitload of people think it’s…
Shooting — Rumination of Ruin
January 11, 2011Even as the news of the world continues to play out, the shooting last Saturday in Tucson keeps it fingers tight on my brain. Involved within this tragedy is a mural of how the US…
Krugman at 4 AM — Democracy in the Crosshairs
January 10, 2011In the wake of Saturday’s Tucson shooting, it’s hard to find any kind of humor in the horror that’s been coming from the right side of the political aisle the last couple of years —…
Shooting: Next Day
January 9, 2011Despite a time when shit events occur fairly often, a real big piece of shit can still make make an impact. An incident of such monstrous audacity can create a blip on the timeline —…
Shooting
January 8, 2011In a short aftermath of the shooting incident in Tucson, Ariz., this morning, one blurb cut through the bullshit. Pima County sheriff, Clarence W. Dupnik, as quoted by the New York Times: “The anger, the hatred,…
No Way Out
November 8, 2010‘Cause suicide is painless it brings on many changes and I can take or leave it if I please. …and you can do the same thing if you choose. — Johnny Mandel, (M*A*S*H lyrics) (Illustration…
Factitious Boner
November 3, 2010Did we neglect to mention John Boehner is an “asshat”? In a trainwreck of an election yesterday, it was fairly-well demonstrated there’s a shitload of asshats in the US. And this a snapshot of why…
Ballot Box-Cake
November 2, 2010Today tells the tale — the most expansive midterm election in US history as all sorts and sizes of political entities are crowding the ballot box. And to make the entire situation nearly bat-shit-crazy with…