Climate for Crazies
August 19, 2011Even as quick downloads of extreme weather have become the ‘new normal‘ in the US — baseball-size hail yesterday in Nebraska, and drought conditions have spread to 12 percent of the country — and even…
Category Archives: Madness
Tempestuous Turbulence
July 14, 2011Even as this debt ceiling fiasco flails about, slapping everybody in the face with its immature, self-centered, politically-charged dramatics, the planet earth itself is rapidly reaching its own ceiling, which once breached will make every-fuckin’-body…
Dropping Acid
June 21, 2011Sitting here along California’s northern coast on a quiet Tuesday morning — the first day of summer — the world’s largest ocean continues its massive movement a couple of miles away, and even way out…
Fear Bunkers Going Bonkers
March 23, 2011“I’m sorry, please forgive me. I kept telling you, Jerry — all of you — get ready, build a shelter. Forget the card parties and the barbecues and make the admission to yourself that the…
Snapshot
March 23, 2011“There is a distance, a veil between us.” — ‘All Quiet On The Western Front,’ Erich Maria Remarque (Illustration found here). War as waged nowadays — slipshod and way-unnecessary — kills in ways way-beyond the…
A Looking Glass: ‘Hanging By Your Fingernails’
March 22, 2011As the so-called ‘no-fly’ war in Libya enters it fourth day, the BBC reports early this morning an US two-seater F-15 jet has crashed, and though the story doesn’t say if the aircraft was brought…
Afghan War — ‘What Is It Good For’
March 11, 2011Is this a back-home by-product of a horrifying nightmare called Afghanistan? An ‘award winning’ veteran loses his shit: An enraged Seymour man shot his mother and tried to shoot his father Tuesday night after the…
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…
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…