Happy Hiroshima Day!
August 6, 2008Sixty-three years ago today Sueko Hada was then seven-years-old: “I managed to claw my way out from under the rubble. By now, our house was on fire and the cries of my sisters were getting…
Category Archives: Musings
Nuclear KnuckleBall in the LoC
July 31, 2008Wikipedia: knuckleball A knuckleball (or “knuckler” for short) is a baseball pitch with an erratic, unpredictable motion. The pitch is thrown so as to minimize the spin of the ball in flight. This causes vortices…
Insolent Idiot: ‘It got drunk’
July 23, 2008During a crisis, or some calamity, under pressure to solve problems, a nation’s leader should be able to help, to solve and put together resources in efforts to figure out the next course of action.…
Unraveling: ‘We’re Coitus’
July 20, 2008An impatient sun is setting on the deeds and life of the US of A. In the September of his reign as leader of the whole, wide world, Decider George’s antics have begun to catch…
‘Grandiose’ Eagle Pull
July 19, 2008And this morning from the Germans via Reuters: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told a German magazine he supported prospective U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s proposal that U.S. troops should leave Iraq within 16…
Darkness in the Footlights
July 18, 2008One definition-aspect of the word, theatrical, is deeds marked by pretense or artificiality of emotion. Our entangled mess of a planet nowadays is becoming a very-astutely-written piece of theater, a play of many acts and…
Clusters Last Stand: Hypocrisy
July 10, 2008A shitload of stuff the US says and then does is an outright lie, or at best, a stance hidden behind a forest of double-standards. Case in full point: Cluster bombs. These little bits of…
True Liar
July 8, 2008Hats off to the most-excellent news site, thinkprogress.org for noting yesterday of Decider George’s blatant use of the most-forked of tongues. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blurted out some heavy words to a meeting of…
Iraq Outbound
July 6, 2008One of our most-favorite of Iraq peoples is the Shia cleric Moqtada al Sadr. Beyond looking like a way-sedated Jack Black with a beard, Moqtada carries enormous political clout, and also has the armed capability…
Legacy of the George: ‘Two + two = five’
July 2, 2008A category here at Compatible Creatures is Orwellian — a sort which in recent days seems to aptly fit. The word’s very image represents a malignant, manipulative and repressive entity in a position of power,…