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…
Category Archives: Politics
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…
Stormy Days Of Fever Heat
July 26, 2009The earth is indeed melting away. Â (Illustration found here). Clouds, those wispy, sometimes dark and ominoness floating forms we all take for granted as part of our natural environment whenever we look up —…
Beyond There Lies Their Lies
June 12, 2009Still more grim news, but today’s particular sack of shit is more ethics and morals than anything else. Three stories that reflect our times — strange/bad and getting worse — and how lopsided situations have become as…
Children’s Future Past
May 14, 2009An understated environmental report today from the UK, calling climate change the biggest global-health threat of the 21st century. Lead author of the report Professor Anthony Costello: “The big message of this report is that climate…
Shut The F*ck Up — And — WTF!
April 27, 2009First — Shut the fuck up! Karl Rove is not only a nasty-faced, political-turd-slinging asshole, but also a true indicator how this country has been crippled by GOP bullshit interference, which this time around could be costly and…
When Smart-Ass Reporters Ask Dumb-Ass Questions
March 25, 2009News people working the White House are way-too-cool for school — Last night, they acted the arrogant clowns displaying delusional as opposed to actual smarts during President Obama’s press conference. (Illustration found here). Obama is…
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…
Date-Rape Agent
January 28, 2009This is bad. From ABC tonight: The CIA’s station chief at its sensitive post in Algeria is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly raping at least two Muslim women who claim he…