Poverty Party
September 14, 2011(Illustration found here). Being poor is getting further down and dirty. In an age where money is getting scarce for those on the bottom rung of the economic ladder, the prospects for any kind of…
Tag Archives: war
The Big Bad Bogeyman
September 13, 2011In the wake of all the solemn ceremonies this past weekend during the 9/11 commemorations and all the chatter of a possible terrorist attack during the proceedings, the US is still full of fright for…
Nine-Eleven-Eleven
September 11, 2011Watching the ceremonies this morning in New York is way sad — not just for the innocents killed today a decade ago and their families, but also for the naive, near-pompous nationalism inspired by the…
Momentous Mouthful
September 10, 2011Ten years ago today was a Monday. In those times, my then-21-year-old daughter was back living at home, working in the area while engaged to a sailor stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, and supposedly set to…
Economic War Jobs
September 4, 2011(Illustration found here). “The economy makes it really tough right now,” said (Tyler) Mitchell. “People say, ‘You go to college, you get a degree, you’ll get a great job.’ Well nowadays, I don’t really think…
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…
Darkness America
August 22, 2011Even as freedom bells seems to be ringing in Libya this morning — anti-Gaddafi forces are reportedly in downtown Tripoli and Muammar is nowhere to be found (even the Russians claim they don’t know where…
Awash
August 6, 2011In a time so awash in dramatic events, especially the last couple of weeks and the debt ceiling/financial markets bombast — worse Wall Street week in three years, the US downgraded from AAA to AA+…
Bad Boomerang Effect
July 25, 2011There’s an absolute truism in the saying, ‘What Comes Around, Goes Around,” albeit for the vast amount time, we never see or feel this effect — what you do today will show up tomorrow. Open…
Blind-Sided Eye
July 20, 2011New US DOD honcho Leon Panetta opened his big yap last week and blubbered to the troops in Iraq that they were there “because on 9/11 the United States got attacked,” but he, of course,…