Something Terrible This Way Comes
September 7, 2011Motive: Something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive. Despite all the science, no one really knows the human brain as the actual workings of a…
Category Archives: Media
‘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…
Negation of the Negative
August 27, 2011As Hurricane Irene slammed into Cape Lookout, North Carolina, early this morning, the storm had weakened, but wow the size and water content. Flooding not necessarily from seawater is a major threat: “Water is the…
Humanitarian Day — ‘Cruel Irony?
August 20, 2011Yesterday — Friday — was World Humanitarian Day. I had no idea. Of course, I also had no idea last Tuesday was the 34th anniversary of Elvis’ death, until it was ludicrously brought to my…
Insane Becomes Sane — Rule of the Full-of-Shit
July 28, 2011A peep-hole into the soul of government can be witnessed during this mad-cap debt ceiling bullshit — one can see just how far a small, small portion of the population can near-about bring down a…
Tuesday to Tango
July 19, 2011Pure crazy is gaining momentum by the hour, even as the entire structure of mankind’s latest reincarnation of civilization is breaking apart like an Arkansas outhouse hit by an F5 tornado. And the crazies who…
Seal the Ceiling — ‘Eat Our Peas’
July 13, 2011(Illustration found here). Even beyond the way-hot weather in the central and eastern US, the disastrous wars all over the globe, and finally even beyond Casey Anthony, the news tearing at the very tattered fabric…
‘The Fourth Estate’
July 10, 2011Last night, I started reading Jeffrey Archer’s ‘The Fourth Estate,’ a big-fat novel about a couple of apparent Rupert-Murdoch-kind of assholes trying to control the world, and in the words off the back cover, an…
‘Run Away, Run Away’ — The King is Reanimated!
June 29, 2011“Well, we’ll not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit’s dynamite. — Graham Chapman as King Arthur in ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail‘ By way-far, Monty Python was (and still is) the most original, outlandish…