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 —…
Category Archives: Media
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,…
Media and the Brain
December 31, 2010(Note: This post first appeared here Oct. 29, 2008. I’m re-posting because…I really don’t know why. Maybe it’s because this is the end of 2010, and the piece is just hanging, but that doesn’t make…
Wiki-Wiki — Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’
November 29, 2010The most-modern gadfly in the ointment of nefarious US governmental operations, WikiLeaks, dropped another load of classified documents into the vast media mainstream on Sunday, labeling this batch, “CableGate,” as the doco-dump is more than…
Vapor Day
November 26, 2010“Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white.” — Round Here, Counting Crows (Illustration found here). This morning for damn sure it’s…
E! The Drones
November 10, 2010War-making equipment down through history has on many occasions been transferred to civilian uses, some of these shifts have been bad, some good and some creepy-dangerous. George Orwell would blow chunks nowadays at the direction…
Biological Abnormality: A Talking Asshole
November 9, 2010One of the things I’ve always wondered about is how do people who’ve done obvious shitty stuff in public handle themselves? How do they view themselves in a mirror, how do they sleep at night…
Hop-Scotch the Herafter on the Heinous Halliburton Hydraulic Cement
October 31, 2010The title quite a mash-up, huh? A mouthful of alliterated sounds beckoning forth a bat-shit-crazy. However, if according to the US Supreme Court and corporations are indeed people — “…citizens, or associations of citizens…” — then…
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…