A Fictional War
August 30, 2011Even as Vermont drowns in its own water, the politics of war still plays on the airwaves, especially after The Dick Cheney made the rounds boasting of his new literary efforts in disengaging the truth from…
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‘Exploding’ Brains — Re-Writing History
August 29, 2011“I didn’t set out to embarrass the president or not embarrass the president,’’ Cheney told Gangel. “If you look at the book, there are many places in it where I say some very fine things…
No Time for Time
August 28, 2011(Illustration of Francisco Goya’s ‘Disaster of War‘ found here). US peoples — and for the final matter — all the world’s peoples stand not-so-nimbly on the edge of a strange and nefarious, swiftly-shifting, era in…
Aftershock And An Exercise in Horror
August 25, 2011Early Wednesday, a sharp 4.5 aftershock hit about five miles from the epicenter of Tuesday’s earthquake, which rattled the whole US eastern seaboard and has put people on edge. Via Twitter this morning: visionAri_style 1:30am:…
War Criminals
August 21, 2011In the annals of US armed conflict, George Jr. and his gang is way-unique — they’re obvious war criminals. If their actions had taken place in another country, the whole bunch would have been hunted…
Humanitarian Day — ‘Cruel Irony?
August 20, 2011Yesterday — Friday — was World Humanitarian Day. I had no idea. Of course, I also had no idea last Tuesday was the 34th anniversary of Elvis’ death, until it was ludicrously brought to my…
Baked Brains — Way Beyond The Deep End
August 15, 2011Left my post for just a week and imbecilic chaos ensues. As if in a fevered nightmare, the peoples of the world, and especially US peoples have taken complete leave of any known sense, and…
USA — RIP
July 31, 2011“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Illustration found here). Early Sunday and deep, wet fog here on California’s north…
Insane Becomes Sane — Rule of the Full-of-Shit
July 28, 2011A peep-hole into the soul of government can be witnessed during this mad-cap debt ceiling bullshit — one can see just how far a small, small portion of the population can near-about bring down a…
Jobs in an ‘Acute Talent Shortage’
July 26, 2011As John ‘The Boner’ Boehner blubbered last night about not “going mano-a-mano with the President of the United States” after trying to refute President Obama on the debt ceiling shit-storm, the mass of US peoples…