Bad Boomerang Effect
July 25, 2011There’s an absolute truism in the saying, ‘What Comes Around, Goes Around,” albeit for the vast amount time, we never see or feel this effect — what you do today will show up tomorrow. Open…
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Mad and Psychotic
July 21, 2011“Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.” — Lily Tomlin (Illustration found here).…
Probe the Soul
July 12, 2011Lawyers apparently have always been legal assholes. From Roman third-century lawyer, Ulpian, on torture: “The strong will resist and the weak will say anything to end the pain.” Yet to torture is a righteous path:…
Surge Dirge
July 5, 2011All over the hotel, dignitaries, who had come to the capital to discuss the future of Afghanistan’s security, locked themselves in lavatories or hid under beds as the killing began. — The Telegraph, on the…
Celebration
July 4, 2011Another view of this particular day: You profess to believe “that, of one blood, God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth,” and hath commanded all men, everywhere…
The GOP — One Ugly Crowd (And Bat-shit Crazy, Too)
July 1, 2011(Illustration found here). One must always keep in mind when giving any thought to how Republicans govern to this heart-felt comment from mush-faced twit Mitch McConnell from last October: “The single most important thing we…
No Soul
June 27, 2011One of the most-horrible stories in a long, long list of horrible stories coming from war waged nowadays: Insurgents tricked an 8-year-old girl in a remote area of central Afghanistan into carrying a bomb wrapped…
Re-brand the Brand
June 25, 2011Apparently, the late Osama bin Laden was tired of his brand name — al-Qaeda just didn’t have the kick and the joke-juice necessary to kill the crowd. All organizations from time-to-time have to take a…
More is Far, Far Worse — Not in ‘Their Right Minds’
June 19, 2011UPDATE BELOW George Jr. and his boys apparently pissed away more hard cash than was originally reported, maybe three times as much — displaying the dumb-ass norm for the entire Iraqi debacle. (Illustration found here).…
Word
June 15, 2011The real bullshit started here: “This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.” — Ron Ziegler, April 17, 1973 Of course, Ziegler went on to construct one of the more infamous of the Watergate…