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: Orwellian
‘An Iraqi Vision’ — Obama on the Euphrates
July 21, 2008This sad, ugly Wide World of War on Terror has gone from real bad to a mounting realization of a coming catastrophic turn for the worse, even as Barack Obama trips through Afghanistan and Iraq,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…