Tortured Reading
September 5, 2009“They stuff people’s heads down the toilet the first day at Stonewall,” he told Harry. “Want to come upstairs and practice?” “No, thanks,” said Harry. “The poor toilet’s never had anything as horrible as your…
Category Archives: Media
Afghan ‘Lord of the Flies’
September 2, 2009How in the living shit of any-kind-of-daylight can the US ‘win‘ any kind of war in Afghanistan? On Tuesday via Raw Story: According to a watchdog group and a litany of whistleblowers, Armorgroup North America,…
Elevate the Ether
August 29, 2009In the last few months, Gail Collins of the New York Times has become one my most-favorite pundits, making clear, concise points with a keen sense of humor. This morning she looks at those insufferable computer…
Historical Horror of the Shame
August 26, 2009In my eighth-grade history class (circa 1962), we would have studied a historical document similar to the one released on Monday, and although content might have been far less graphic, one thing was for sure…
Down the Baseline
August 22, 2009Last summer, I had some sort of political epiphany as candidate Barack Obama near-nonchalantly shot/tossed a basketball in front of a crowd of US troops in Afghanistan — Too cool for school. One can watch…
Clueless Shock
August 21, 2009As the economy tanks, the more wealthy of us are also going down the drain, albeit in slower, easier fashion. From the New York Times yesterday: But economists say — and data is beginning to…
The Late, Great News Game
August 20, 2009UPDATE BELOW “I’m glad you’re not overreacting. What do you wanna run?” “I don’t know. What do I wanna run? — They didn’t do it.” “They didn’t do it? You don’t have close to that.…
Cold Methane Gets Hot
August 18, 2009A shitload of cows standing around farting — Not! Another brick in the wall as a research team has found that a powerful global warming component, methane gas, is seeping from the Arctic seabed, which…
Coke-Dust Dollars
August 17, 2009A fiscal reflection of the age. From CNN: Research presented this weekend reinforced previous findings that 90 percent of paper money circulating in U.S. cities contains traces of cocaine. “When I was a young kid,…
Woodstock Delayed
August 15, 2009Today forty years ago the Woodstock Music Festival started and although it was a supposedly major US cultural event, a big chuck of Americans were unaware of a revolution that started and ended on a…