‘Acid Test’
March 9, 2011“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.“ –Â Bill Copeland (Illustration found here). In an interview Tuesday in the New York Times, David Petraeus blew smoke up the ass of history, a procedure…
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Big Bro, Again
March 3, 2011“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.” – George Orwell, 1984 (Illustration found here). The US Department…
Weather Come Lately
March 2, 2011Expect more intense weather such as the repeating winter storms in the eastern US in the immediate future and for decades to come “until the climate grows so warm that we pass the point where…
Backwards Back-Stabbing: ‘Keep the ball rolling’
March 1, 2011What the shit is the US doing, thinking? Even after nearly a decade on the ground in Afghanistan, the war there has gone beyond insane. (Illustration found here). Warfare should have at least some semblance…
Readin’ Writin’ with Stomach Churnin’
February 28, 2011As the protests across the US against GOP governmental operations — Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, and on and on — gain momentum against the budget-busting, don’t-give-a-shit attitude of right-wing politicans whose exploits fly in the…
Nuclear Exchange: ‘A Real Bummer’
February 26, 2011In the last few years, nuclear war and nuclear weapons has taken somewhat of a back seat to more conventional forms of killing (AK-47s, tanks, etc.) and even to the mega-simple (IEDs), but earlier this…
War Crimes
February 25, 2011“I believe the real looting of Iraq after the invasion was by US officials and contractors, and not by people from the slums of Baghdad,†said one US businessman active in Iraq since 2003. —…
Batshit ‘Curveball’ Crazy
February 16, 2011In the annals of warfare there’s most-likely not been a most-obvious display of immoral lying than the case of George Jr.’s adventure into Iraq. Not only 4,436 US military people have been killed, nearly 33,000…
Krugman at 4 AM — the Fork-Tongued Right
February 14, 2011One of the major problems confronting the US right now (might be THE problem) is the nit-wit clueless ignorance of Republicans and just about anyone on the right. And it’s a ‘not my job‘ attitude…
Whoppers as Reality
February 13, 2011One giant, DUH! From Media Matters: Asked what most viewers and observers of Fox News would be surprised to learn about the controversial cable channel, a former insider from the world of Rupert Murdoch was…