Weekend Wanking
November 14, 2010“But February 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 Surfing Internet news sites can be overly-depressing. Any kind…
Category Archives: Orwellian
Wiki, Wiki
October 23, 2010In the release by WikiLeaks of its batch of Iraq war logs Friday, and a quick, rapid look-see, the biggest sense is of frustration, and a tightening of the conscience, in the horror and misery…
Judas Dick
October 22, 2010The Dick can blubber along with the best of them — and if he shoots you in the face, well, you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and if he “outs” a…
Red-Eye Killer in the Sky
October 19, 2010“Always find your target true And we will always pay for you To turn a terrorist’s skin a paler hue.” — To A Drone: A Poem (Illustration found here). The so-called drone war in the…
‘Dying in the Night’
October 12, 2010In deep spaces of the dark side, there’s no daylight, ever. Dying! Dying in the night! Won’t somebody bring the light So I can see which way to go Into the everlasting snow? — Emily…
Fear Part Deux
October 9, 2010Fear is a soft sounding word, nothing scary about it, at least until some circumstance is attached. Last week, my first post on fear concerned the quiet, unassuming fright in the storing of mega-dangerous spent nuclear…
Fear
October 3, 2010News watching is a curious obsession. Among the many other neurotic proclivities living in my brain-matter’s attic, most likely the deep-set roots for this constant need for situational awareness is a fear of missing something…
Forever Dying
October 1, 2010Insane or not: Why would the US shackle itself to a place that’s been called the, ‘graveyard of empires,’ and where most of the world’s heroin has its birth? Or as Marie asked: “Uh, he…
Everything’s Cool — ‘Trust Me’
September 30, 2010Not! A new Gallup poll indicates a majority of US peoples don’t trust the mass media — Trust in the media is now slightly higher than the record-low trust in the legislative branch but lower…
A Known Known
September 21, 2010(Added stuff below) News this morning that one of the great assholes of our time (on the rock-face with Dick Cheney), damn-dumb Don Rumsfeld, will release his “autobiography” early next year and will tell the…