Shooting — Rumination of Ruin
January 11, 2011Even as the news of the world continues to play out, the shooting last Saturday in Tucson keeps it fingers tight on my brain. Involved within this tragedy is a mural of how the US…
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Shooting: Next Day
January 9, 2011Despite a time when shit events occur fairly often, a real big piece of shit can still make make an impact. An incident of such monstrous audacity can create a blip on the timeline —…
Non-Human Warfare
January 3, 2011Just as the new year began, the US war machine’s ultimate killing device reportedly nailed 19 people in Pakistan where drones kept hovering in the skies all most all the day long creating panic and…
Year’s End
December 31, 2010Well, here it is — the last day of 2010, a year for the books, as they say. After an event-marked 12 months, this happy new year’s screed seems a bit optimistic as the entire…
‘Fear Center’ — Wing-Nut Brains
December 29, 2010One of the principal traits of conservatives — that label is not used liberally — and anything GOPish is the great presence of fear: the Republican-upchuck fright-inducing phrase to the ignorant, ‘government takeover,’ has been…
End of Empire
December 20, 2010UPDATES BELOW America as world empire is tottering on the brink — in this modern age of so many different and terrible events are taking shape, the life of the vast majority of US peoples…
Ha, Ha, Ha — Just A joke — Ha, Ha, Ha
December 15, 2010Life is so funny and hilarious, the bowels scream with laughter. (Illustration found here). Yesterday, the famous last words of Richard Holbrooke, the long-time US diplomat and President Obama’s point man for the Af-Pak theater…
Watershed Year
December 12, 2010(Note: This is a re-post of mine from three years ago, and with an end of the year coming again, appropriate. The original piece appeared here on Dec. 30, 2007. And yes, indeed, 2008 was…
NIE — Doublespeak Dreaming
December 12, 2010UPDATE BELOW Orwellian coin: Winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to…
Sad
December 10, 2010A lot of viewpoints have changed in a real-short period of time. Only in the last few weeks have I began to fathom the understanding President Obama might just be a one-termer — a concept…