BlackOut — SOPA’s Choice
January 18, 2012(Illustration found here). Today is a kind of watershed moment when the Internets respond to attempts to censor shit by banging down the back door, but a load of ‘Net peoples have chosen instead to…
Tag Archives: History
Pissing Bullshit
January 13, 2012Some of the righteous posturing: “…utterly deplorable…” — U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta “…wholly inconsistent with the high standards of conduct and warrior ethos that we have demonstrated throughout our history…” — Marine Corps Commandant…
Couple of Dicks Named Rick
January 9, 2012On occasion being ‘under the weather’ can cut some of life’s tangled problems loose as when one is sick, nothing else matters but being sick. So, I paid scant attention to the two neurotic GOP…
Fog of Truth — ‘Bugsplat’
January 2, 2012As the new year grinds on, politics has taken the edge off the nearly unnoticed pullout of US troops from Iraq, ending a segment in one of the most-horrible of episodes. And the most lied…
Twelve Months Later…
December 31, 2011In case you didn’t know already, this is the last evening of 2011. And if you didn’t have your collective head up your collective ass, you know the past 12 months have been shitsville. “There…
‘Bluster’ — Oil and Water Mix
December 29, 2011A few days ago, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep, and this time the pump price had dropped six cents since the last gas-station visit, down to $3.83 a gallon…
‘Run, Forrest, Run’
December 28, 2011Books and movies are two completely different countries. In one you read by yourself (unless you’re in a group-grope book club), the other you see and hear — and the two supposedly connect when the…
Tea Cup Turbulence
December 27, 2011Climate change is corrupting Bangladesh tea — the low-lying nation has a great tea growing industry, but the warming temperatures with less rain not only stumps growth, but can alter the flavor. From Aljazeera English…
Floating Dreams
December 26, 2011Modern life isn’t what we figured a generation ago. The world is way-more high-strung, more anxiety-filled and dangerous. Just yesterday a couple of horrible tragedies — in Texas seven people were found shot to death…
Liars and Other Assholes
December 21, 2011Tis the season for the big lie. Infamous fabricator Stephen Glass is now after a lawyer’s job — off ‘Shattered Glass‘ fame, he made up stories at the New Republic during the late 1990s and…