History Whacked
February 10, 2012Old men, they are now — the big three of the scandal of scandals. The Washington Post blog The Reliable Source reported on a chance encounter in late January of John Dean, Bob Woodward and Carl…
Category Archives: Media
Superbowel — What?
February 5, 2012Pig skin and history: Ground acquisition. And that’s what football is, football’s a ground acquisition game. You knock the crap out of eleven guys and take their land away from them. Of course, we only…
Dangerous Disclaimers
February 3, 2012Bluster and bullshit go hand-in-hand: Reportedly, there’s some kind of big game this weekend, don’t know myself, but a lot of hype out there about it — Sunday’s a good day to get some good…
Talkin’ ‘Bout the Weather — Not!
February 1, 2012Any half-sane person is by now sick to the bowels of the GOP — Mitt Romney won the Florida primary, but the question posed: Who gives a shit? Although President Obama is most-likely the most-disappointing…
Party of Assholes
January 27, 2012Last night, long-time CBS correspondent Bob Schieffer waxed hot on modern US politics: This is just another sign of the incivility and really the vulgarity of modern American campaigns. These campaigns have gotten so ugly…
The Dick and The Drone
December 13, 2011(Illustration found here). The US drone war is the one conflict that’s always continually escalating — even as the US vacates an isolated Pakistani base from where UAV aircraft were launched will apparently not slow…
Journalism-i
December 9, 2011I have given my whole life to newspapers. I am convinced that they have abandoned their functions, and in an abject and ignominious manner, in the present war. Nine-tenths of them, and even more than…
Paper Cut
December 4, 2011Print journalism has lost another body part, this one right close to home. Next Thursday will end the 110-year-old life of the Humboldt Beacon, a weekly covering mostly the southern part of the county, a…
The Day After Thursday — ‘Rapid Crowd Movement’
November 25, 2011From the police playbook of mob control: A woman shot pepper spray to keep shoppers from merchandise she wanted during a Black Friday sale, and 20 people suffered minor injuries, authorities said. … Fire department…
‘Enduring’ Mystery
November 18, 2011As events go, 1981 had its share of weird and nefarious shit — Ronald Reagan was inaugurated president in January, was shot and wounded in March and recovered enough by July to nominate Sandra Day…