Inhale, Exhale — ‘Meet You On the Other Side’
June 1, 2011Practiced are my sins, Never gonna let me win, aw huh,.. Under everything, just another human being, aw huh,.. Yeh, I don’t wanna hurt, there’s so much in this world To make me bleed. —…
Tag Archives: History
Climate Endgame — Beyond the ‘Tipping Point’
May 31, 2011Here in the wee hours of the last day of May 2011, the world keeps spinning, the rain keeps coming down (along the northern California coast) and bad shit keeps filling CBS’ early-morning-looped-news program, ‘Up…
Fleeting Life
May 11, 2011In these early-morning hours, the view towards this new day is made up of apprehension and dread — my Jeep is in the shop (which makes me walking to work, though not too far) to…
What? Me Worry? — Beyond the Osama Smokescreen
May 5, 2011Are we finished with Osama bin Laden, already? If the killing of the murderous shithead doesn’t change the insanity of the so-called ‘war on terror’ than the whole thing is just a media spin to…
Osama’s Legacy
May 4, 2011“The invasion of Iraq I believe will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history.” — Retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom, 2005 The late Gen. Odom — he died in June…
Osama Madness
May 3, 2011“They gonna make him outta be a martyr.” — liquor store customer The above quote came from just one of a ton of customers at my liquor store yesterday, all expressing some form of jubilee…
Going Nuts! — Osama’s Dead
May 2, 2011Since 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…
Dr. Methane Gun, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Extinction
April 26, 2011In viewing climate change, every so often there comes along some aspect of that horror-in-coming that’s even more morbid, more dark-cast depressing than normal, and one of those is the impact of methane gas deposits…
‘Cold, Cruel and Irresponsible’
April 25, 2011Never in US political memory has the discourse become so full of one-sided hate and animosity toward the unwashed masses, i.e., the poor and other meaningless pieces of considered flotsam supposedly throttling the rich from…
Faster, Uglier
April 21, 2011(Illustration found here). As 2011 marches right along, and even as we celebrate the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill (BP high-fived the celebration by doling out big bucks to Republican ass-kissers), and try…