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…
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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…
Guns: ‘I was lucky’
January 12, 2011One of the most amazing items within the horror of the Tucson shooting this past weekend is the abundance of firearms found in the US and how a whole, dumb-ass shitload of people think it’s…
Shooting — Rumination of Ruin
January 11, 2011Even as the news of the world continues to play out, the shooting last Saturday in Tucson keeps it fingers tight on my brain. Involved within this tragedy is a mural of how the US…
Krugman at 4 AM — Democracy in the Crosshairs
January 10, 2011In the wake of Saturday’s Tucson shooting, it’s hard to find any kind of humor in the horror that’s been coming from the right side of the political aisle the last couple of years —…
Futile: adjective; incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful: See Afghanistan
January 7, 2011‘Peace upon earth!’ was said. We sing it, And pay a million priests to bring it. After two thousand years of mass We’ve got as far as poison-gas. — Christmas: 1924, Thomas Hardy (Illustration found…