Iraq the VA
June 2, 2014High overcast and cool this early Monday on California’s north coast — time is a speeding asshole because it feels in reality like it should still be Friday afternoon. Reality in this crazed age is…
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‘Clueless, Heartless and Ignorant’
May 3, 2014Up until just about an hour ago, I was feeling good — the weekend with the sun shining and the air up here on California’s northern coastline warm and fuzzy. Until Greg Mitchell at The Nation…
War Crime
January 21, 2014Heavy ground fog this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, which in turn makes the moist air a little-bit warmer — meanwhile, on the eastern US seaboard today winter keeps on keeping on with storms…
Terror
January 3, 2014A nightmarish cauldron is mushrooming out of control in Iraq, and apparently there’s not anything to be done. Bloody mess George Jr. cooked up, then left on the grill to burn — from the Washington…
Iraq — ‘Near Future is Dark’
December 1, 2013(Illustration: A little Iraqi girl contemplates horror, Basra, Iraq, March 30, 2003, found here). Pushed further and further back in current history, the nightmare that’s Iraq is way-off the anywhere-near mainstream news cycle these days…
News PM Punch — ‘Zero Option’
November 28, 2013A sky full of bright sunshine blended with a mild breeze this afternoon on California’s north coast — even with a slight chill, it’s nice. And circulating high on the news cycle this PM appears…
News PM Punch — Fossil Fuel Frolic
November 20, 2013Cold and overcast this Wednesday afternoon — the north coast of California gray with an occasional dull-sparkle of sunshine. Not too-bad a day, though. News-wise, a pretty mundane day, at least on the crisis side…
Shame — PM Addendum
October 17, 2013UPDATE BELOW Clear and chilly again this early Thursday on California’s north coast, the near-full moon hanging brightly out west over the Pacific Ocean. All seems serene. Appearances can be deceiving — in DC, the…
War Crimes — ‘Within the scope of their employment’
October 6, 2013In the midst of the most-current, pure-crazed US government debacle, a murderous example from most-recent history, most-horribly won’t go away — 107 people were killed in Iraq yesterday in just a few incidents: The killings, which…
Nightmare Shame
August 11, 2013(Illustration found here). When I started this blog in late April 2007, the total-main topic of the every-day US news cycle was the nightmare of Iraq — the war was an unmitigated disaster. On April…