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An "Old Army Vet" and liberal, qua liberal, with a passion for open inquiry in a neverending quest for truth unpoisoned by religious superstitions. Per Voltaire: "He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity."
Thursday, August 18, 2011 What we have to fear isn't just fear (8 comments)
This friend of a friend of a friend is not a "bad" man. And that is the problem today, the one we need to be terrified of. It's not badness, necessarily. It's much more serious: it's profoundly stupid ignorance.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 Our first responsibility is to accept it (2 comments)
That ringing in our ears isn't tinnitus; it's our consciences reminding us of a moral fact: Even if the matter of culpability has been diluted by millions of others who also cast the ballots, we must share the blame, when there's blame that ought to be borne.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 Paul Newman explains the Republican Party. (4 comments)
"What we've got hee-ah is "fail-yah to com-municate.'" That infamous line from Paul Newman's 1967 movie, Cool Hand Luke, has so many applications, especially when the follow-up line is "Some men you just can't reach."
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 What sort of relationship are you looking for? (2 comments)
When it comes to those we hire with our votes, we shouldn't be pondering whether he or she would make a wonderful neighbor, perhaps someone we'd like to socialize with, become fast buddies with. Can that person do the "job," will he or she represent our best interests?
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Have you ever had a bronchial infection? (1 comments)
Have you ever had a bronchial infection? A severe recession can be like that: requiring a heavy dose of government intervention. The "Great Recession" we experienced in the last years of the Bush administration required, but did not get from either the Bush or the Obama administrations, an adequately heavy dose of government intervention in the form of federal economic stimulus. What we got was too weak and too brief.
Saturday, June 4, 2011 The question is: Are you completely nuts? Are we? (6 comments)
Here's a rude fact of life that's sure to upset: Not all opinions are equal. It's why we consult those members of our society who have demonstrated and met certain standards of proficiency in the given subject matter. Or . . . at least why we should consult those members of our society who have demonstrated and met certain standards of proficiency in the given subject matter.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 This is a test, but oh it is such an important one (5 comments)
It matters . . . a great deal, a very great deal, that you scroll over the comments made by U.S. Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, to highlight them, then hit the Ctrl-C on your keyboard, to paste them into a document that can be easily and immediately referenced.
Saturday, May 28, 2011 In Memoriam to Memorial Day
I no longer stand when the National Anthem is played. It is an abject lie. We are not the "home of the brave." Fewer than three percent of Americans bear the burden of defending on the ground any part of the ground we walk upon. And virtually none care to draw a cent from their personal accounts to help pay the tab.
Thursday, May 26, 2011 Ms. Elizabeth Warren and the North Carolina weasel (2 comments)
The folks in North Carolina's 10th must not care much about integrity, or intelligence. Just look who they elected to office.
Thursday, May 26, 2011 What Ed Schultz said grieves me deeply. (10 comments)
When Ed Schultz called Laura Ingraham a "right-wing slut," he concomitantly insulted all women, and that bothers me deeply.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Guess who . . . we've become (7 comments)
The sorrow. Just who the hell are we? What have we become? The sorrow . . . and the shame.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Worse than December 7, 1941 (3 comments)
They have now come for the Trade Unionists. They, including everyone who votes for them, have declared war upon us all! We either stand up . . . or we lay down with the pigs, to also eat their slop.
Sunday, February 20, 2011 A fire in New York is being fought by bottom feeders (1 comments)
The other day, as response to the union protesters in Madison, Wisconsin, Rush Limbaugh called the gathered "bottom feeders."
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 Signing off -- The Cause is Lost, Scat is King (3 comments)
Ten years and we're at last at the bottom of a barrel that has settled to the bottom of a cesspool.
Sunday, October 24, 2010 Have we all gone nuts (4 comments)
Mr. Jones! George Bush was president. Hank Paulson was his Treasury Secretary. And when the country's financial roof collapsed in 2008, Mr. Paulson penned a 3-page bill that was in effect naught but an extortion note, "Hand me all your cash in unmarked 20's; $850 BILLION!
Friday, September 24, 2010 On choosing friends, lovers and associates (2 comments)
How else can it be read than that those voting GOP in 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008 supported those heinous, absolutely shameful policies? How else can it be read than that those so voting in those elections felt: "Screw the uniformed fools who stepped forward to serve the country"? And how else can it be read than that those who retained friendships with those who so voted did not also agree with those sentiments?
Friday, September 10, 2010 What a foul stew we're concocting (7 comments)
"It's hard to overstate how destructive the economic ideas offered earlier this week by John Boehner. He proposes two things: large tax cuts for the wealthy that would increase the budget deficit while doing little to support the economy, and sharp spending cuts that would depress the economy while doing little to improve budget prospects. Fewer jobs and bigger deficits -- the perfect combination.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 Conservatives and conservatism's book burning madness (10 comments)
Conservatives are frightened little people whose base fears require they place in subjugation all who they fear might pose some threat to their senses of order . . . as if one could ever hold back the tides of change and progress, regardless whatever might could be summoned to the task.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Don't let Republican games turn into Republican gains! (1 comments)
How do Republicans propose setting the fiscal house more to order? By gutting Social Security, Medicare, and by adding a 2 percent sales tax that the least among us pay on food, not by closing a single loop hole the wealthy and the corporations enjoy.
Sunday, August 22, 2010 The 'CRITICAL' difference between private and public in public services (4 comments)
They're there to make money and any way they can cut corners means they make more money." "In the public sector, the security of the prison is job one," he added. "This kind of security breach, that would just be a serious, major breakdown. That's not always the case with private companies.
Sunday, August 15, 2010 You can thank a liberal for your freedom (9 comments)
There are "Angels in America". They're called liberals, and conservatives owe them a salute, and a debt of gratitude that can never be paid.
Saturday, August 14, 2010 My first run-ins with the damning illogic of the Right (7 comments)
NOTICE: Rough sledding ahead. The effort is to be as honest as I can be, which for many may be a ride to tough to handle; language and verbal images employed accordingly.
Friday, August 13, 2010 I'm looking for a word (5 comments)
why the presumption the model is somehow by necessity, in every instance, that which ought to prevail? What should we call those who are blind to the all too obvious evidence there is no validity to the presumption the private, for-profit model is by necessity, in every instance superior to what the government can do?
Saturday, August 7, 2010 How wealthy we must be, to toss our kids into the pit (3 comments)
". . . the U.S., once the world's leader in percentage of young people with college degrees, has fallen to 12th among 36 developed nations."
Thursday, August 5, 2010 While you were looking elsewhere, your church and the corporations were setting you up (10 comments)
This past April, a highly conservative federal appeals court ruled against the Federal Communications Commission's right and authority to regulate Internet rates and practices. (Retrace to the beginning of the preceding sentence, and ponder as you proceed how your relatives' and neighbors' Republican leanings and votes will, not may, cost you money and the freedom to use the Internet!
Sunday, August 1, 2010 I need some help here. Actually, we all do. (6 comments)
"Opponents say that it could prevent smaller American companies from drilling offshore at all due to concerns about the cost of an accident."
Let's pretend for a moment that we're all adults here.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Telling the facts isn't always the same as telling the truth. (8 comments)
However this may seem as though it's about Shirley Sherrod, until a few days ago, the National Director for Rural Development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and how she happened to be fired from that post, this is actually about us, and the way we use facts and how we respond to stories that include them. The watchword is "beware."
Sunday, July 18, 2010 Senator McConnell -- Ernie Kovacs' Percy Dovetonsils lives (1 comments)
For a few years now I've had this recurring bout of deja vu: Where, just where have I seen Senate Minority Leader, Kentucky US Senator Mitch McConnell before?
Thursday, July 15, 2010 Bet you don't know: the cost of a gallon of gas in your area (4 comments)
'm fully prepared to wager that you don't know, not even if you just returned from filling your tank this morning. Currently I'm in the Sacramento area where the per gallon prices range from $2.97.9 to above $3.15.9.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 I found out why we're neck deep in doo-doo (4 comments)
In addition to the report of one person in the Detroit area perishing from hyperthermia, I learned that the Free Press stories that on July 5 garnered the most readership were, from No. 10 to the champion Numero Uno:
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 An important speech by Sen Franken to Constitutionalist Soc, PLEASE listen (3 comments)
In his Al Franken manner, tersely outlines what has gone wrong, how justice is being -- as it has been -- hijacked by conservatives to serve ill ends. Franken's points are made with his typical droll, sometimes sarcastic humor. But the points are made.
Thursday, June 3, 2010 The "spill" . . . We've none but our friends to blame (11 comments)
Absent voter support of the conservative tenets that have culminated in the wholly avoidable disasters we've witnessed, it is probable none would have occurred.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 The gift (2 comments)
Every Republican ad airing in the state is an effort to outdo his or her challenger on the basis by being "the true conservative," and not some "liberal," with "liberal" being employed as the most tawdry epithet in the English language.
Sunday, May 30, 2010 A few things have just got to be said. (117 comments)
There exists no record that even one illegal alien ever took a job that belonged to an American. You can be the registered owner of your car. You can hold title to your house. No one owns a job.
Thursday, May 27, 2010 Breathing Republican fumes
The Republican argument against raising the cap hinges on the incomprehensible proposal that by insisting a company bear full liability for damages it causes, it will squeeze out of the drilling business smaller companies that would not be able to pay for the damages they caused.
Saturday, April 10, 2010 The Mother Lode in the Upper Big Branch Mine (1 comments)
Massey's Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine tragedy brings the core question conservatives ask us to ignore front and center: What role has government to play in the regulation of a society's otherwise private affairs?
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 How damned stupid do you have to be, to be a conservative voter? (14 comments)
How many of the family members who are now without one of their family members remain so inclined to vote for less government, smaller government, not quite so intrusive government? This isn't to suggest any really were, but if any were . . . how about it today?
Monday, April 5, 2010 Calling it like it is: Ugly, dumb, and TREASONOUS (19 comments)
These folks, one and all, are just as much terrorists, and just as much a threat to civil society and to democracy's fabric as any threat we might envision from beyond our shores.
Thursday, March 25, 2010 On Reaching about for my Chief Joseph Moment (8 comments)
I am a better person, a superior human being than any Republican voter. A Republican voter is unworthy of being in my presence.
Friday, March 19, 2010 Really, view this Columbus-Dispatch vid of your friends
Do not pass this one by. Turn your volume up, at least so you can hear the comments coming from the Republican crowd. Your "friends," your neighbors. Actually view the 2-minute video from the Columbus-Dispatch newspaper; especially at the 1-minute mark.
Sunday, March 14, 2010 The Texas Board of Education: America's Taliban. (95 comments)
Who are these educational experts, deciding what will be in the textbooks that more than half of America's school children learn from? The list is composed of clowns. But, if clowns are supposed to be funny, this group is Freddy Krugerish terrifying.
Friday, March 12, 2010 GOP Loves Talk about "Frivolous Law Suits" Relative to "Tort Reform."
The highly consequent fact that pillories the Republican argument absolutely is that California's limiting malpractice legislation hasn't stemmed at all the soaring rise of medical costs in the state, nor the unconscionable escalation of health insurance premiums!
Thursday, March 11, 2010 One Way or Another, We're All in That Hurt Locker. (3 comments)
Essentially what it is they're saying is "I got mine, (insert the expletive of your choosing) you." Whether they actually have "it," or just think they do, that's the sentiment.
Saturday, February 27, 2010 Wisconsin's conservative Paul Ryan eats organic
The interview question put to the Republican congressman was what he thought of Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign. The Republican's reply said much, much more about where he and his GOP colleagues are coming from than anything he could possibly have intended. His reply: "I eat organic."
Friday, February 26, 2010 Largemouth bass have swallowed the bait, hook, line, sinker, & boat.
One of their characteristics is a mean disposition, among other fish they're not the dumbest. But they're still just plain, tiny-brained, stupid fish, and like Republican voters, conservatives (no discernable difference, any longer), and the tea baggers, they're known to swallow just about anything. They prey on anything that's smaller and dumber than they are, including plastic worms.
Saturday, February 13, 2010 I want to know, just what the hell have we become? (3 comments)
On July 4, 1776, 56 men signed their name to a document that was in effect an indictment of treason against the Crown, and that would have led directly to their being hanged or shot, had their bold and brave effort failed. I am embarrassed and ashamed of who we have too much become.
Thursday, February 11, 2010 Dipping into the Whackoe-mole Sauce (1 comments)
Ya can't use your seed corn to make tortillas this afternoon and expect to have corn on the cob next year. Or, more technically, though not much more, you cannot spend the same dollar twice.
Thursday, February 11, 2010 America's tenth decile, the "sitting around guys." (3 comments)
Without knowing it, a business model decision that weighs costs with benefits is the Fortune 500 type of decision every young, urban core, gang-banger made, as do all prospective members to the gang.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 It's a noose, not a bow-tie.
It's the federal judiciary, most particularly . . . no, quintessentially, it's all about THE SUPREME COURT. It, and it alone, decides EVERYTHING that will matter to the corporatist.
Sunday, February 7, 2010 The 14% solution, and all that jazz.
Democrats working with Republicans suggests some computerized confection of one of the funniest (to me) Seinfeld episodes with Dancing with the Stars. Either because Elaine does not know the steps, or because she refuses to follow the script is exactly what the Republicans have been doing, ever since the Obama inaugural.
Saturday, February 6, 2010 Refusing The Call; Will selfish Seniors hand over the USA's future to China? (83 comments)
Based on the treasure we're stealing from our youth during those final months and days, the evidence suggests very few believe as much as they say they do. Deuteronomy 30:19 commands us to "choose life." It doesn't say to throw every last buck into the sewer, trying to avoid what's going to be the conclusion anyway.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Friday Night Smackdown - A Sign of the Times (3 comments)
"If a family today cannot afford . . . how much health care insurance will they be able to buy with a $5,000 tax credit that comes into play during the next tax filing year, and after they've spent $15,000 the previous year for health insurance?"
Monday, January 25, 2010 Yosemite Sam (Alito) takes dead aim at American democracy.
"Justice Samuel Alito noted during the September arguments that foreign-owned media corporations have the same First Amendment rights that American companies do."
Friday, January 22, 2010 The American dream and ethos on the edge.
It's one thing to be frustrated and angry. It's another altogether to be stupid. The voters in Mass. demonstrated their mass stupidity on the 19th.
Friday, January 22, 2010 Three murders at Guantánamo - An investigation will define who we are
The America I love is an ideal, or, rather a devotion to an ideal; a standard of decency, justice, and governance above all the rest.
Today we are faced with another test of that devotion.
Friday, January 22, 2010 Dear Dr. Franklin, I've sad news to impart. (1 comments)
What you and all of the attendees to that convention in 1787 feared, the potential of money and its aggregation in a few hands to corrupt every inclination and perception of a democratic republic, has at last come to pass.
Monday, January 18, 2010 Whether from the Right, the Left, or the middle . . . Wrong is Wrong. (10 comments)
A lot of angry noise is coming in torrents from the Left about Obama summoning ex-President George W. Bush, to work with Bush's immediate predecessor in the office, Bill Clinton, on behalf of raising funds for the Haiti earthquake victims. The angry sentiments from the Left are both misplaced and reprehensibly misplaced.
Monday, January 18, 2010 The Big Red Fiscal Lie of Red States
The "liberal" states have been taking a lot of guff from folks who love telling the rest of us how wave-the-flag proud they are of their conservative values. It's way past time for the citizens of the donor states to tell these scofflaws to just shut the hell up; keep sucking, as that's the deal that's not going to change, but please . . . shut the hell up.
Saturday, January 16, 2010 The Joke's Not Funny, Especially if You Laugh.
The reference to a not at all joke, and not laughing, springs from who the Robinson's are, or rather what they screamed to the heavens they believed.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Justice Itself on Trial (6 comments)
The California federal district court in San Francisco is scheduled to hear Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the case challenging the constitutionality of the voter-passed amendment to the state's constitution that outlawed same-sex marriage.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 We can get in the game, or get run over. (1 comments)
For those American parents who take more interest in and feel greater pride in their kid's athletic achievements than in their scholarship: You are the tragedy! Rather, you are a tragedy in the making for your children. Football is wonderful amusement. The bottom line, however, is that it is absolutely irrelevant to playing the game of life; the scrimmage to earning a living.
Saturday, January 9, 2010 Today's McCarthyism. Will we Stand up Against it, or Stand Down? (4 comments)
The United States today, as a society, is at great risk of disintegration, of no longer existing. This is not the first time in my life the country has faced this peril.
Saturday, January 9, 2010 All is "Lost" (3 comments)
It was an "Oh no, Mr. Bill" sort of moment. ""Lost,' not going to be on? My life is over; not worth living."
Monday, January 4, 2010 The devil votes Red (5 comments)
"This is craziness," said Representative John Linder, a Georgia Republican who is the ranking minority member of a House panel on welfare policy. "We're at risk of creating an entire class of people, a subset of people, just comfortable getting by living off the government. You don't improve the economy by paying people to sit around and not work. You improve the economy by lowering taxes."
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 BREAKING NEWS: JFK photo was a retouched November, 1967 Playboy feature (1 comments)
BREAKING NEWS: JFK photo was a retouched November, 1967 Playboy feature, "Charter Yacht Party: How to Have a Ball on the Briny with an Able-bodied Complement of Ship's Belles."
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 About SEX, it's about time we grew up. (13 comments)
This most recent brouhaha over a young and unmarried JFK is nothing more than the most recent, sick, attempt by sick conservatives to force a façade that is an abject lie on every historical and physiological fact.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Christmas in America (4 comments)
Who are those least akin to the teachings of Jesus? Liberals who insist all Americans should have health care as a right, or the conservatives whose demonstrated first allegiance is to free market capitalism's profits?
Sunday, December 20, 2009 The rot of the "free-market' (4 comments)
When Thomas Jefferson wrote in his March 17, 1814 letter to Horatio Spatford that "Merchants have no country, the mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains," he was being honest and ominously prescient.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 Turn stepping out on the Democrats into a march (2 comments)
It may prove to be somewhat of a case that appears to be cutting off our noses, but the progressive electorate needs to presume to some core principles and the courage to stand behind them, just exactly as the Democrat in the White House and those Democrats in the House and Senate are not.
Sunday, December 13, 2009 Merry Christmas-- Ho, Ho, Ho What the Hell (2 comments)
And that is why we have to plan on being in Afghanistan for the next 15 years; on the kid's and grandkids' credit cards. And about the cost, 'Doan worry 'bout it.'
Friday, December 4, 2009 Today, December 1: A day for tears.
How much? How many? How long? Why?!!! And keep this fact tucked beneath the pillow: Add 30,000 forces to the mix and the total will then sum to more than what the Soviets had.
Friday, December 4, 2009 The clock anvil and the lie that business creates jobs (14 comments)
Ever since David Stockman sold the ruse to Ronald Reagan, the American fish has been swallowing the lie that businesses create jobs hook, line, sinker and worm. It's time to shove an entire bottle of Ipecac syrup down our collective throats.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 What I Want, but am not Going to Get for Christmas (3 comments)
All seven items on my wish list are attainable. And most are both readily and easily so. We can do this, every one of us. What I don't understand is why we're not even trying.
Monday, November 30, 2009 As to Afghanistan, this Thanksgiving it was ‘Thanks, but No Thanks.' (3 comments)
If you want to go to Bazaar, that's the route.
The arguments concerning Afghanistan — for US military actions and against them — are much like that. Though the question about the road to and ‘why' either never gets asked, or the rationales are just as weak as the presumption there could ever be a reason I'd head out in December to reach Bazaar.
Saturday, November 21, 2009 Rosaries, Rostrums, and the God's Awful Truth
Looking over the course of history, all the way to today, I don't think we can . . . handle the truth. At least insofar as the truth tends to impale many of our most sacred and endearing beliefs we can't.
Saturday, November 21, 2009 The GOP's Limbo Rock and How ‘Low' Can We Go? (1 comments)
In an accent she'd never completely been able to overcome, 'Of course . . . I didn't agree with everything the Nazis did.'
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Through Sara Palin, Billy Mays lives (2 comments)
What got me was not anything Ms. Winfrey asked, nor anything Palin said, but the ga-ga looks on the faces of Winfrey's audience. I couldn't determine whether it was that of a “When Harry Met Sally”sexual orgasm or . . ..
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 The earwig and soldier suicide
If we stand idly by, saying nothing to anyone lest we dampen the holiday spirits of those around us, we will be the ones inserting the earwig into their ears. Whatever violence a returning combat veteran may visit upon anyone, possibly including one of us or one of our kids or one of our parents, will be of our own doing. We will have no one to blame but ourselves.
Sunday, November 15, 2009 Afghanistan Troop Increase: The Costs not Calculated (1 comments)
After making the most eloquent and grandiose of rah-rah speeches to “honor our heroes,” to save what in Washington-speak amounts to loose change Bush and the Republicans kicked veterans out of the VA medical system.* (See end of article)
Friday, November 13, 2009 As morally cherry-picky as it wants to be (5 comments)
Eventually the objective observer and the most ardent parishioner will both be forced to ask, “Just who the hell are these people?” And, “Why are they here?”
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 A Veterans Day Preamble (3 comments)
How many children have you seen with a missing arm or leg or arms or legs or with a face so badly scarred by some fire that was set ablaze by a mortar round or an incendiary grenade? So badly scarred that it's highly likely they will go their entire lives not knowing one moment of happiness or freedom from pain?
Monday, November 9, 2009 The Combat Experience: The Child and the Video Tape and the Horror. (8 comments)
The tape of that moment of that day keeps playing: the woman's screams, your shouts, and your bullet to her brain. It's Ground Hog déjà vu all over again. No one can make it right. You can't make it stop. And you damned sure can't tell anyone.
Friday, November 6, 2009 If you won't discuss this, may God help us all (3 comments)
Here is the link to a Keith Obermann “Countdown” segment. View it. View it! VIEW IT! What it shows is the entire Republican congressional delegation, gathered on the front steps of the capitol, calling for an overthrow of the government.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Prisoners of War: The Homeless in Seattle, and Savanna, and San Diego, and . . . (2 comments)
You want to “fight them over there” as opposed to “here”? Then you go. Know this, however, if you do: “You” will never, ever return. Someone with your name may make it back. But “you” won't. Until that day — be very grateful you can pay the tab . . . and respectfully shut the hell up!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Dick Cheney and the Divorce Court Fabergé egg. (2 comments)
A $1,250,000 Fabergé egg . . . presented to you by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and you don't remember you wife stomping on it? That's difficult for any of us to believe.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Stay Out of the Red States, if You Want to be Healthy. (4 comments)
Is it just coincidence, bad luck, that with but one exception, that of West Virginia, every one of the bottom 10 US states for both health and education are both politically very conservative and the bastion of the Bible-belt?
Sunday, November 1, 2009 California, Maine, Same-Sex Marriage Laws and Getting Stoned Shariah Style. (25 comments)
What they are, are zealots, small, frightened little zealots to be sure, but zealots just the same; exactly of the same mind set as the Shiriah-enforcing Taliban in Afghanistan who stoned a young rape victim or the Aztecs who ripped a yet-beating heart from the chest of the human sacrifice.
Saturday, October 31, 2009 The questions asked concerning Afghanistan are all wrong. (8 comments)
It was those who might take offense at my language that I wanted most to offend. We're talking about horrendous death and mutilation of human beings — and some complain because they're disturbed by rough words???
Friday, October 30, 2009 The comics, balloon boy and as ignorant as we want to be. (2 comments)
America gets its daily dose of dumb, which is what Americans really want: the comics; lots of pictures, little to read or try to understand. The stations save a ton of dough, which is what they're truly all about. And no one is the wiser, or sadder, or poorer.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Rush Limbaugh's Notions and the Terrorism of the Minority Report
To compose conclusions about someone else's motivations, thoughts and likely behaviors that are based exclusively on one's own predispositions, prejudices, fears and bigotries, and not a whit on any actual evidence may be the most abhorrently dangerous of all human endeavors.
Monday, October 19, 2009 Obama, Harry Reid, and Machiavelli (7 comments)
Bi-partisanship and comity are laudable goals, if, and only if, they can be reconciled with the overriding objective. In and of themselves, they will result in the chaotic ravages predicted by Machiavelli, the products of the “excess of tenderness.”
Thursday, October 15, 2009 You want 'what' in Afghanistan? (1 comments)
40,000 additional troops will not accomplish the task. Using Jones' (and General Petraeus') own 1 - 32 insurgent warfare troop-strength calculations, the ratio of boots on the ground to a host population, the Afghanistan campaign is gonna require 640,000 marines and soldiers.
