Oops
June 30, 2008The war in Iraq is a horror in which no US citizen is immune. In a well-presented op/ed in the Los Angeles Times last week, Cy Bolton, a former TV news anchor and military affairs…
Category Archives: Orwellian
Asshole! Into a Looking Glass
June 27, 2008Vice President Dufus Dick Cheney is way-more than an asshole, more a liar, thoughtless and corrupt and yesterday a bit of this horror came out in spades. Dufus Dick’s chief-of-ass-scratch, David Addington, paid a subpoeanaed…
Real Deal — Oil and Permanence
June 18, 2008Up comes two seemingly unrelated, underhanded, heavy-handed deals, cutting like odorous, fart-splitting flatulence across the landscape, coupling together the future of Iraq to the entrails of the US. War for oil. Old fart-head Alan Greenspan…
Disaster Inheritance
June 5, 2008If Sen. Barack Obama becomes President Obama in November, all the change in the world, even all the king’s men and horses and US peoples may not be able to correct the horror. Although a…
Frightful Future
May 28, 2008In the waning days of Decider George’s grip on reality, events and disclosures reveal just how bad the past nearly-eight years have been — an ugly, multi-generational inheritance. If one is heartless and puts aside…
‘Open Secret’
May 8, 2008In the long run, probably the biggest news story of the year so far is the unspoken one, a seemingly open secret. The New York Times expose a couple of weeks ago on the Pentagon’s…
IEDs, PTSD But No Nudity
April 28, 2008As the Iraqi and Afghan wars continue, the frustration and horror of US GIs on the ground seems to have no bounds. Not only do they have to endure a violent and senseless situation every…
Original Intent
April 23, 2008Now more than seven-and-a-half years later, the US has been sidelined from pursuing bad guys and instead is on a quagmire-like, downward spiral via a couple of savage sinkholes. Although a military strike into Afghanistan…
‘Wild Bill’ and the TV Generals
April 22, 2008A first read and seemingly nothing new. A few minutes, hours and now a couple of days to contemplate. The scenario now sickens us to the bowels. Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is…
Easter’s Ending
March 26, 2008Just at dawn on Christianity’s most-holy day, rockets and mortor rounds slammed into Baghdad’s Green Zone. Time for the biggest blunder in history to begin its horrific draw down. The attack seemed to spark violent incidents all across Iraq, like a disjointed, ragged shock wave, although…