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…
Category Archives: Orwellian
Iran Hand
January 10, 2009As the Gaza situation continues, even in the face of international outcries and the top U.N. human rights official calling for a war crimes investigation, the real-deal hand in all this, Iran, is being cool.…
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…
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…
Preparatory Beware: Info from Liars and Incompetents
December 17, 2008Advice from fabricators and twisters of truth. The current White House people have produced “contingency plans” for President-Elect Obama in case some emergency might quickly pop up in the first few weeks of his administration,…
Pervert the Intelligence
December 10, 2008Decider George went around blubbering last week about how the CIA screwed way-up over Iraqi WMD: Sorry about that, “just wish the intelligence had been different, I guess.” The intel was different, asshole. It just…
Hangin’ de Legacy — Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
December 8, 2008Karl and George: Still up to no good. Now they’re on an exploding PR exit-strategy bandwagon to try and purify Decider George’s putrid near-eight years in office. (Illustration found here). In the closing days of…
Legacy Created
December 6, 2008In a flash: There’s a couple of stories out there this morning on Decider George’s legacy — both today and beyond next month. One from CNN here and the other from Juan Cole here, although…
‘Success’ In Iraq
November 26, 2008Decider George is like a rotten, aching and throbbing tooth, one of the them backside, big-old molars, one that can’t be worked on or even pulled, sitting there in the headcase, making life even more…