‘Give Us A Kiss’
December 8, 2010This evening 30 years ago, John Lennon was shot dead — a shock end to an era. In this an iconic anniversary for an icon, a lot of media attention will focus on Lennon’s years…
Tag Archives: History
Pride & Prejudice
December 7, 2010One of the most compelling, thought-provoking and candid assessments on the state of the planet came this week from a Native American educator, who bares the reality of both history and the terror of nowadays.…
Krugman at 4 AM — Jobs Limited
December 6, 2010Trying to find a job in the US is getting to be worse than a bitch. From Calculated Risk: For the current employment recession, employment peaked in December 2007, and this recession is by far…
The Great Wiki-Wiki Depression
December 5, 2010Some serious-looking stuff there, just down the road a-coming. (Illustration found here). As I’ve mentioned before on this blog — to the mega-scant regular readers (on average) — life has become so physically dysphoric in…
Shame on Change
December 2, 2010In the beginning, Barack Obama carried a big bucket of change — change he claimed all of us could really, really believe in and live with as we moved onward into that most-wonderful future. My…
Hillary Hilarious
December 1, 2010UPDATE BELOW In the ugly aftermath of the WikiLeaks doco-dump. the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blubbered like a baby: “This disclosure is not just an attack on America’s foreign policy interests. It is…
Vapor Day
November 26, 2010“Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white.” — Round Here, Counting Crows (Illustration found here). This morning for damn sure it’s…
Afghan War Degenerating — Worse than Vietnam?
November 24, 2010There’s a joke I tell people sometimes about my cigarette-smoking habit: “Worse dumb-ass thing I’ve ever done — next to being married twice.” (Illustration found here). Afghanistan has never, ever been any kind of a…
Patton’s Panic
November 19, 2010US military commanders are apparently up to doing whatever it takes to further cloud an ugly, inevitable truth of a botched war and an even more botched war plan in rolling back history. From the…
‘Giddy-Up’
November 12, 2010Warmongering sonofabitches. Instead of the number 11, US military officials actually meant the number 14 — President Obama on announcing his so-called ‘Afghan surge’ last year blubbered US troops would begin a drawdown in July…