Conventional Crimes
August 12, 2009Today 60 years ago — Aug. 12, 1949 — was the fourth installment of what has been termed the “Geneva Conventions,” a series of documents meant not to stop war (what piece of paper could…
Category Archives: Media
Afghan Abides
August 7, 2009This morning the jobs report is better than expected even as AIG posts a second-quarter profit, the media continues to ignore the GOP reality behind the healthcare townhall disruptions and a DOS attack on Twitter, FaceBook and Google…
Bubba’s ‘lovely thing’
August 6, 2009Bill Clinton hasn’t ever meant much to me, other than being a greasy political animal with bad taste, thus seemingly just an inadvertent knuckle-head. (Illustration found here). This past week, however, the old bubba-boy seemed to…
CIA Me Not
August 5, 2009Although I’ve been working on some other projects the past few days, this came up last weekend and is such a glaring example of how this country in reality will never recover from the last…
Stormy Days Of Fever Heat
July 26, 2009The earth is indeed melting away. Â (Illustration found here). Clouds, those wispy, sometimes dark and ominoness floating forms we all take for granted as part of our natural environment whenever we look up —…
‘Same Donkey…New Saddle’
July 25, 2009An example of why this so-called ‘War on Terror’ is such a complete, abysmal failure. Sen. James Webb, Democrat from Virginia, has called for an investigation into the details surrounding an attack on a US outpost…
War’s Media “Bloodbath’
July 24, 2009There are old war correspondents and bold war correspondents but no old, bold war correspondents… –Â Joseph L. Galloway In an age of seemingly perpetual war all over the globe, those reporting from the front…
The Dick Bourne Identity and the World as ‘Free Fire Zone’
July 23, 2009Seymour Hersh had ’em nailed all along. From the New Yorker online: They want to turn these guys into assassins,†a former high-level intelligence officer told me. “They want to go on rumors — not…
Cronkite Continued
July 18, 2009All the blubbering coming from broadcast news last night on the death of Walter Cronkite yesterday made me want to grab a barf bag and run away. These talking twit-heads on TV are nothing but…
Black and White Good Night
July 17, 2009End of trust and straight-talk – Walter Cronkite died today at age 92.  (Illustration found here). In memory, Ben Bradlee with a piece posted today in Newsweek on Cronkite and Watergate: In October 1972, Cronkite devoted two segments,…