Krugman at 4 a.m.
September 20, 2010Famous, mega-rich person, Marie Antoinette, has been credited, though not so in reality, with the ugly phrase, “Let them eat cake” when observing the starving poor — a similar asshole stance from GOP wag, US…
Category Archives: Politics
Herculean Disappointment
September 6, 2010UPDATE BELOW If there’s going to be any kind of future history — or any kind of logical future history with all the shit hitting the earth’s fan right now — President Obama will be…
Blog Thyself: ‘Do You Have The Time, To Listen To Me Whine’
February 14, 2010Writing society: I remember when it was kind of cool to be a blogger. You’d walk around with a swagger in your step, a twinkle in your eye. Now it’s just humiliating. Blogging has become…
Crude Bubblin’ Bust
October 11, 2009A few short years ago, anyone who discussed subjects like “peak oil” were considered a crank (not to be confused with, for instance, ‘Will my car crank without fuel?’) or a nutcase or just a…
Whoa!
October 9, 2009Friday morning shocker: President Obama has has won the Nobel Peace Prize — “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.†And the Nobel Committee added: “He has created a new international…
‘Bratty’ And Not At All Funny
October 5, 2009“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.†— Oscar Wilde (Illustration found here). The so-called Republican Party — the GOP — has descended into nothing…
Fragments from a place far, far away and long, long ago
September 24, 2009Announced quietly last week was the death of Jody Powell, 65, press secretary to Jimmy Carter, ‘A leader for a change,’ whose presidency inadvertently was the last apparently in Americana’s more sane and serene view…
Down the Baseline
August 22, 2009Last summer, I had some sort of political epiphany as candidate Barack Obama near-nonchalantly shot/tossed a basketball in front of a crowd of US troops in Afghanistan — Too cool for school. One can watch…
No Longer ‘Just Around the Corner’
August 14, 2009One of the most-alarming aspects of climate/weather change/global warming is the science — the most current report is always worse than the previous one and sometimes the figures are amazing. Just a couple of examples…
Politics, Please!
August 13, 2009On Tuesday, President Obama held a town-hall meeting on health-care reform at Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and after some opening remarks, he fielded questions from the audience. The second person called was…