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,…
Category Archives: Media
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…
Gap-Stop the Laptop
April 2, 2009I hate Internet Explorer. My laptop went bozo Monday morning and I lost Mozilla Firefox and can’t get it back. IE sucks so bad, no linking, no images, no nothing. Bill Gates and Microsoft should…
‘Ghost Net’
March 28, 2009Hack into the matrix: The malware is remarkable both for its sweep — in computer jargon, it has not been merely “phishing†for random consumers’ information, but “whaling†for particular important targets — and for…
Straight-Shooter Business
March 27, 2009Bow-tied and all business, long-time TV news journalist, Irving R. Levine, died Thursday at the age of 86. Levine was an original, who like Murrow, Cronkite, Howard K. Smith, to name a few, were themselves…
Despair Economics
March 26, 2009This so-called “financial meltdown” is indeed a down, but a descent from the base-bottom up — Close to 70 percent of the current unemployed in the US are blue-collar workers despite all the Wall Street…
When Smart-Ass Reporters Ask Dumb-Ass Questions
March 25, 2009News people working the White House are way-too-cool for school — Last night, they acted the arrogant clowns displaying delusional as opposed to actual smarts during President Obama’s press conference. (Illustration found here). Obama is…