Birthday Shoe
January 17, 2009As Decider George gets ready to leave, there’s nothing better than to send his ass flying out the door. Although still in jail, Iraqi shoe bomber Muntadhar al-Zeidi turned 30 on Thursday: “Muntadhar was in…
Category Archives: Musings
Not Done It Pundit
January 16, 2009Another brick in the wall. The DOD’s IG says the DOD did nothing illegal in the DOD’s TV news military analysts program: But in the new report, the inspector general’s office, noting the absence of…
Death of Raw Realism
January 16, 2009Andrew Wyeth, one of greats in the art world of precise realism, died today at the age of 91. (Illustration of Wyeth’s ‘Christina’s World‘ found here). On the artwork above, from the New York Times…
‘Flat’ Finish
January 16, 2009One last jab at Decider George’s sad and nearly-innocuous good-bye address last night, an useless endeavor if there’s ever been one, and with nearly 70 percent of US peoples wanting him gone — good, good-bye…
Fare Thee Well — Part 2
January 15, 2009Even an after-thought already. Decider George’s farewell fiasco was eclipsed in the news cycle today by the Airbus doing a hard belly-flop in the Hudson River — and furthermore, a “miracle,” as everybody on board…
Fare Thee Well — Part 1
January 15, 2009Late this afternoon here in northern California — early evening back on the right coast — Decider George will bid his not-so-absolute farewell to a beleaguered nation, a crowd of US peoples itching for his…
Obama’s Panetta: Blowback the Spooks
January 8, 2009Intelligence does not always mean brainy. Charlie Wilson wasn’t a spook, but he used the stuff of spooks to create such an explosive blowback situation in Afghanistan that the war he fueled altered modern life…
‘Smaller Than Life’
January 3, 2009One major gripe I’ve got against the New York Times‘ Frank Rich: He doesn’t publish enough. Rich weaves theater into politics and for the most part, at least this past year, has threaded together the…
Climate Calamity
January 2, 2009No one seems to be paying much attention to the warmth. In this second day of a new year, the biggest problem facing the US — and the world — is not the financial meltdown,…
Hang ‘Em, Hang ‘Em High
January 1, 2009As one of the most-bizarre and just-plain-weird years comes to a close and a new 12-month cycle just cranks off, I’ve gotten this really-bad feeling about Decider George and all the horrible, immoral, illegal shit…