Paradoxical Logic
February 10, 2011(Illustration found here). Life appears becoming to an end via interesting ways. What was considered true and old faithful, just might be a lie. The huge volcano under Yellowstone National Park has been rising at…
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Who Is This Guy?
February 9, 2011Despite the elements, the protests continue to grow and grow and grow. (Illustration found here). On Tuesday, and even after more than two weeks of protest, the crowd in Cairo’s Tahrir Square was by far…
Bees Needs — Pollinate Thyself
February 8, 2011As climate change continues its unchecked advance upon the deep-blue planet, disrupting everything we now consider, all kinds of weird and ominous shit are coming to dangerous, life-threatening surface. And like a lot of other…
Krugman at 4 AM — Bad News on the Doorstep, and Ringing the Chimes
February 7, 2011As events continue to dramatically unfold in Cairo’s Liberty Square, the US also persists in propping up other assholes around the world beyond Hosni Mubarak, who is clinging to power despite the last two weeks.…
Af-Pak Woes-Begotten
January 28, 2011In the last couple of years, the US foreign take on the disaster in Afghanistan is to junk on another acronym, ‘Af-Pak,’ in an apparent effort to link Pakistan with the war being lost in…
Tony’s ‘Blank Cheque’
January 21, 2011Tony Blair’s speech before the UK’s House of Commons, March 18, 2003: “It will determine the way in which Britain and the world confront the central security threat of the 21st century, the development of…
Un-Fright the Frightners
January 20, 2011Fright Friday: John McCain ratcheted-up national apprehension when on Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, he named Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate, blubbering: “She’s got the grit, integrity, good sense and fierce devotion to…
War, Lies and Death
January 18, 2011Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, wrote in 1993 that in the last century (the 20th, if you don’t remember) 167 million to 175 million men, women and children had their “lives deliberately extinguished…
Krugman at 4 AM — Reality Bites
January 17, 2011As the GOP pulls his head out of the ass of dumb, they seem ready to crush that horror of President Obama’s health care reform — as Republicans dub it, “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care…
Danger Man
January 14, 2011As the US comes to grips with the plain idea that we’re a gun-wielding, dangerous society, and despite all the comfy talk about “civility,” from President Obama to Rep. John ‘The Boner’ Boehner, the culture…