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…
Tag Archives: Media
‘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…
‘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…
‘Chicken Crap’
December 3, 2010(Illustration found here). Yesterday from the mouth of the heartless insane — via UPI: U.S. Rep. John Boehner, the incoming House speaker, described a Democratic move Thursday to limit the extension of the Bush tax…
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…