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: Orwellian
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…
‘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…
An Audacity of Impertinence: Obama’s Toxic Shame
March 22, 2009If not for the way-pissed-off feeling I have, coupled with a sense of nothing-you-can-do despair, maybe this would be sad, or least wouldn’t appear so freakin’ obviously stupid: Mr. Haas walked on, his pink shirt…
Meanwhile, Back at the Wars
March 19, 2009Today six years ago, one of the most dumb-ass and dangerous operations in all of history started up and despite all kinds of processes to the contrary, is still going full banana with no end…
Journalism: ‘It’s Not A F**king Game!’
March 14, 2009In the past few years, a lot of people and organizations who should have been the standard bearers for news gathering and reporting have dropped the ball big time — Journalism sucks nowadays. Despite all…
‘Eat’ the Truth — Deciders as Genociders
March 5, 2009After nearly a year, an arrest warrant was issued Wednesday for Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir, charging the guy with war crimes and crimes against humanity. The good Mr. President, however, told the International Criminal Court to…
‘It’s the Economy, Stupid’
February 24, 2009“Why ain’t they turning?” — Frederick Fleet, in the crows nest of the Titanic. (Illustration found here). As President Obama prepares for a major speech tonight to a joint session of Congress — a State…
Corrupted Culture
February 18, 2009Corruption rot spawned from lies. The entire Iraqi misadventure is a horror-shame of an affair. From UK’s The Independent on Monday: In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American…
Drone Ownward
February 14, 2009The future is still here — “the first time a combat vehicle has used a laser to shoot down a UAV.” (Illustration of General Atomics Predator UAV found here). This morning another report of yet…