A Brief History Of A Dick
May 16, 2009“If two cars come up next to you, one with a stranger and one with Dick Cheney, you get in the car with the stranger.” — Wanda Sykes, advice to her children regarding really scary,…
Category Archives: Media
Children’s Future Past
May 14, 2009An understated environmental report today from the UK, calling climate change the biggest global-health threat of the 21st century. Lead author of the report Professor Anthony Costello: “The big message of this report is that climate…
Iraq’s Jabberwocky Nightmare
May 13, 2009The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! — Lewis Carroll (Illustration found here). A surreal snapshot of a horrifying, nonsensical moment in time: The Iraqi invasion just might end up being the greatest man-made…
‘Walk That Back’
May 6, 2009Â I told him I was against [the atomic bomb] on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to…
Tartuffery
May 3, 2009Why the US talks out the ass. Churchgoing makes one a much-nicer person: More than half of people who attend services at least once a week — 54 percent — said the use of torture against…
Tortured Ghost of Dicks Past
May 2, 2009“When the President does it, that means it is not illegal.” — Richard M. Nixon, TV interview with David Frost, May 20, 1977. Condi Rice opened her mouth this week and spewed forth Dick Nixon,…
Swine Poo and Assorted Mules
April 30, 2009Toxic Hog Dump (h/t to tristero at Hullabaloo). From December 2006 rollingstone.com: Smithfield Foods actually faces a more difficult task than transmogrifying the populations of America’s thirty-two largest cities into edible packages of meat. Hogs…
Eco Samurai-Zombies
April 29, 2009Interesting view of the worldwide financial meltdown. The global economic crisis is like a Samurai movie, quips Dennis Meadows co-author of the 1970s eco-doom report, ‘Limits to Growth.’ In a Samurai film’s inevitable finale, sword wielding…
Shut The F*ck Up — And — WTF!
April 27, 2009First — Shut the fuck up! Karl Rove is not only a nasty-faced, political-turd-slinging asshole, but also a true indicator how this country has been crippled by GOP bullshit interference, which this time around could be costly and…
America’s Affliction
April 26, 2009“Just as you [Eichmann] supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations — as though you and…