“I didn’t set out to embarrass the president or not embarrass the president,’’ Cheney told Gangel. “If you look at the book, there are many places in it where I say some very fine things…
Even as freedom bells seems to be ringing in Libya this morning — anti-Gaddafi forces are reportedly in downtown Tripoli and Muammar is nowhere to be found (even the Russians claim they don’t know where…
Lawyers 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:…
By far, the biggest problem facing this good earth is climate change and the horrible consequences of humanity’s greed is right now plying its whirlwind. As I type these words in the wee hours of…
Since 9/11, social media has become today’s platform for expressing news and views. A sign on Facebook aptly summed President Obama’s political rejoinder to Republican provocateur Donald Trump: “Sorry it took me so long to…
A bit of news not played up here in the US: Former Vice President Dick Cheney, known to his friends as just, The Dick, will skate on bribery charges brought forth by Nigeria — The…
The Dick can blubber along with the best of them — and if he shoots you in the face, well, you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and if he “outs” a…
In deep spaces of the dark side, there’s no daylight, ever. Dying! Dying in the night! Won’t somebody bring the light So I can see which way to go Into the everlasting snow? — Emily…