‘Hiroshima Mon Amour’
May 28, 2009This past weekend the North Koreans tossed the old middle finger once again at the world and tested a nuclear device: “Was it another fizzle?†asked Hans M. Kristensen, a nuclear expert at the Federation…
Category Archives: Musings
Memory
May 25, 2009Despite all the posturing, the US is a war-like nation. (Illustration found here). War has always been in the vital interests of the US — starting from day one, but officially most-likely from the Pequot War…
‘Change’ = ? = WTF!
May 21, 2009Change out my wizened, ancient ass! Yesterday from CREW  — Citizens for Responsibility And Ethics In Washington — on the so-called Valerie Plame Wilson episode: CREW learned today that the Obama administration is opposing our request that…
Where Is We?
May 19, 2009Talk about being lost after eight years of failure on so many different levels! It is uncertain whether the Air Force will be able to acquire new satellites in time to maintain current GPS service…
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,…
‘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…
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…
Endgame — The Music Is Long Gone In The Hear-And-Now
April 23, 2009February made me shiver With every paper I’d deliver. Bad news on the doorstep; I couldn’t take one more step. — ‘American Pie,’ Don McLean In south Alabama where I was born, hunting and guns…
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…
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…