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…
Category Archives: Madness
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…
Stomp: The Out-Of-Tune Musical
October 27, 2010Less than a week to go before this infamous mid-term election cycle and the twisted political scene reveals some really mean, nasty and bat-shit-crazy people out there. In the 50 years I’ve been personally aware…
Imbecilic
October 20, 2010Politics does make strange bedfellows, as the saying goes, but in the US for this election cycle, it’s complete bat-shit-crazy — one wonders if there’s a certain element here that’s been created by some demented…
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…