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…
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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…
If Looks Could Laugh
April 20, 2011WTF — Sonofabitchin’ asshole of a shithead! Researchers found that the students were able to keep their hands submerged in the icy water for longer when repeating the swear word — establishing a link between…
End Cycle
April 19, 2011Human life does indeed travel in cycles — spring, summer, fall and winter — with birth, youth, middle age and the final and abrupt circuit, death. History also appears to move in cycles and the…
Too Much of Everything
April 18, 2011Peter: Let me ask you something. When you come in on Mondays, and you’re not feeling too well, does anybody ever come up to you and say “sounds like someone’s got a case of the…
Flatulence In The Face Of Disaster
April 15, 2011From Wikipedia: The noises commonly associated with flatulence are caused by the vibration of the anal sphincter, and occasionally by the closed buttocks. Hence, we now understand the operational capacity of ‘sphincter-says-What‘-Republicans and other asshole…