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Monday, August 31, 2009
Death. As a ceremony.
(1 comments) Ted Kennedy's life was extraordinary -- filled with both flaws and strengths. His death closes yet another door that might have led to what the Framers saw as a possibility and what the newly emerging Fascists see as an obstacle: the hope of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Senator Ted Kennedy
(9 comments) Why the tears? I don't know. Perhaps the announcement was simply another reminder of the scope of the tragedy that has been the Kennedy Family -- a monumental Shakespearean tragedy, far beyond what any family should be fated to endure.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Christian Reconstruction
(7 comments) Prince -- while significant in the Dominionist Movement -- is simply a small cog in the wheel of U.S. Fascism, a wheel that seems to be unstoppable as it slowly and inexorably turns this country into an asylum managed by right wing Republican sociopaths, Christian killers and corporate thugs who, in a different time, a different place (France mid-1790s) would be summarily executed for their attempts to destroy this Republic.

Monday, July 20, 2009
Vortex
(2 comments) Dreams? For mothers, dreams die when the son (and now daughters, too) die. Or they crumble into dust when the child returns from a horrific time in combat with arms blown off, heads caved in, souls eaten away, minds completely blown.

Monday, July 13, 2009
Spawn
(12 comments) But, like her dad, Liz, in addition to being severely detached from reality, is a not-so-crypto-totalitarian. Liz seeks rigid discipline; order; screams; strict rules enforced by ugly stuff perpetrated in dark cells wherein harsh punishments and ancient tortures are delivered with no mercy.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Wrong. Terribly Wrong...
(1 comments) McNamara's true legacy is to be found in American men now in their 60s who still carry the with them the memories of the war crimes perpetrated against yet another innocent country the United States decided to invade and destroy.

Monday, June 29, 2009
Gosh, It's Good To Be Back
(2 comments) It's not that I leave the planet when I take a week off; it just seems that way. No newspapers or TV, unless, of course, we hear through the beach grapevine that, once again, a Republican "family values" freak has got caught with his wee-wee pinched in the zipper of a dress not belonging to his wife. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

Monday, June 15, 2009
Freedom!
(2 comments) After six years in prison (for what? convicted by whom? defended by whom? guaranteed what rights?)American officials concluded that the men should not be considered enemy combatants and an American court ordered their release. But, Cheney insisted! Cheney warned! Cheney demanded they be kept locked up! Forever!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Look! It's Me! Look! Please!
(2 comments) To a very large, extent the general public has become a fearful herd of mooing bovines, moved this way then that way by whatever barking Republican is handed a mic or is steered toward a camera. Is there any topic, any attitude, any idea, any anything that a right wing Republican can't saturate with fear and then use to turn the cowardly Mister or Missus Television-Watching America into a vibrating mass of onrushing panic?

Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Hide Them!
(2 comments) Graham insists, "We're not going to do any more business in the Senate. Nothing's going forward until we get this right." By "get this right" he means, of course, bury this evidence, hide it, eliminate it, tell no one we are guilty of these atrocities, if it's hidden no one will ever know, so quick, hide it! And, until it is safely hidden, the business of government will halt. Full stop. We must hide the evidence!

Monday, June 8, 2009
Collateral Damage?
(3 comments) According to Scotland's Sunday Herald yesterday, "Amid the media frenzy and speculation over the disappearance of Air France's ill-fated Flight 447, the loss of two of the world's most prominent figures in the war on the illegal arms trade and international drug trafficking has been virtually overlooked."

Thursday, June 4, 2009
Tiananmen
(4 comments) To the students, workers, and intellectuals who died that June night in Tiananmen Square, I swear I will never forget the honor, courage, and, yes, poetry you offered the whole world. Your actions might have been, could have been, the spark that ignited the goddess's torch, a spark that would have spread across the planet. But, the spark was just that -- a soft glow on a warm June night that died in a cascade of gunfire.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Shame
(6 comments) Lakhdar Boumediene, tells Dan Rather during an interview on the cable channel HDNet about his recent torture -- among other horrific procedures his being force-fed through a nasal tube for over two years while he was trying to maintain a hunger strike in protest of his treatment. Boumediene's story was the focus of a recent New York Times article in which he describes his seven years in the U.S. torture compound.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Kill Them...Kill Them All
(9 comments) It just goes on and on, doesn't it? The tales of absolute horror slowly leaking out; Dick Cheney continuing his "Goddamit, I'm Innocent Tour - 2009″; the Democratic Party leadership in the House, the Senate and the White House utterly refusing to order an inquiry, a hearing, an investigation. So, where do you suppose it'll all end?

Thursday, May 28, 2009
Perros Que Come Estiércol
Is it possible that right-wing Republicans (meaning: all of them) can dive any deeper into the political gutter? Into the swirling sewer of their own stupidity and willful ignorance? The latest -- e pluribus unum -- is their disgusting attack on Federal Appeals Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Nukes and Missiles and Bombs, Oh My!
(1 comments) No matter the man-made global horror--war, torture prisons, nuclear weapons proliferation, mega-death--the ruling elite will make trillions. The soldiers' lives ended, the blood spilled, the civilians blown into red mist, the psychological destruction carried home by combat-weary men and women, none of it matters to the business and government elite who are the benefactors of all this fear and death and destruction.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
14 Amendment: R.I.P.
(1 comments) Same-sex couples who married several months ago did so legally, but couples seeking the same status today seek an illegal contract--illegal because of religious insanity. In other words, in the brief time after the first Supreme Court ruling on this issue in May 2008 until the religious crazies could get a ballot initiative before the voters last November--a total of six months--same-sex marriage was legal. Now it's not.

Thursday, May 21, 2009
Dominus Vobiscum
(1 comments) According to The New York Times the report states tens of thousands of Irish children were sexually, physically and emotionally abused by nuns, priests and others over 60 years in a network of church-run residential schools meant to care for the poor, the vulnerable and the unwanted.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Teacher
(2 comments) Today is the birth anniversary of Malcolm X. He was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925. Were he alive today he would be 84 years old. Among many items of truth, he said...If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything... and...I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

Thursday, May 14, 2009
There's a Word For This: It's 'Evil'
(3 comments) The authorized harsh interrogation in April and May of 2002 -- well before the Justice Department had rendered any legal opinion -- had as its principal priority an attempt to force the confession of a link between Iraq and al-Qa'ida. It was not an attempt to obtain intelligence that would uncover the plans for some sort of terror attack against the U.S.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
"Sadistic . . . Violent . . . Inhuman"
(4 comments) They must be horrific. So violent, in fact, so obscene, so counter to even the basic tenets of human decency that President Barack Obama sought today to block the release of hundreds of photos showing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan being abused, violated, tortured.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Indict Them; Prosecute Them
(4 comments) The arrogance displayed by Bush Administration officials and their legal advisors where it concerns their contempt, both for the law and those now advocating to bring them to justice, is astonishing. The lack of Congressional interest in this collective criminality is especially alarming.

Monday, May 11, 2009
'Soldiers work for corporations, not for the people'
(12 comments) Cheney and the rest of the draft dodgers who operated the single worst administration in US history made a decision to force troops into repeated deployments to Iraq. This was the simplest method for keeping constant the number of American soldiers in that ravaged and bloodied country.

Thursday, May 7, 2009
Poison
(3 comments) the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security released a report--coordinated with the FBI--that examined the potential threats from right-wing extremist groups where it concerns domestic, homegrown terrorism. At some point normal Americans, regardless of their political alignment, must realize and end the madness and poison right-wing radio and television injects daily into this tired society.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009
The Savage Weiner
(14 comments) Weiner is simply one act from a whole institution of radio talk freaks here in the U.S. who are known for their hate speech, their vile comments where it concerns poor people, the ill, the homeless, and those incapable of defending themselves against the ravings of a violent thug like, well, Weiner. This guy even -- on occasion -- out-hates Limbaugh!

Monday, May 4, 2009
Tea Bag THIS, Mo-Fo's
(6 comments) The Obama administration expects these new laws to raise at least $210 billion over the next 10 years, "to cut taxes for American families, increase incentives for businesses to create jobs in America and reduce the deficit." Yeah. To "cut taxes" for American families, reduce the deficit, etc.; the stuff about which the right-wingers will scream and snort and wave their tea bags wildly in the air, and shriek no! no! no!

Thursday, April 30, 2009
As a Man Soweth...
(2 comments) The missing question in the Pew study was this one: "In addition to being a church-goer who believes in torture, what is your favorite 24-hour news channel?" If you just answered Fox, you win a front-row pew at the next Communion Service at the nearest 20-thousand member evangelical mega-church.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
How Many Fingers Am I Holding Up, Winston?
(1 comments) But, it never happened the way the liars in the Liberal Media have declared. No. Never. Did we "waterboard" a bit? Sure. Did we do it more than once per detainee? Like, repeatedly? Like 183 times in one month to Khalid Sheikh Muhammad? No! Of course not!

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Goodbye! And thanks for all the fish!
(5 comments) Around lunch time today in Washington the faint smell of urine could be detected wafting from Republican Party headquarters. The entire Party leadership had just peed its pants on hearing the news that Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter had switched caucuses and joined the Democrats.

Monday, April 27, 2009
Republicans = Death
(1 comments) Therein lies the Republican resistance -- pandemic preparation (is) essential to any responsible plan for renewing the U.S. economy. Republicans do not want the economy renewed. Renewal would mean Obama has succeeded. Republicans would rather see disease, disaster, chaos, death, panic . . . anything, so long as Obama does not succeed.

Thursday, April 23, 2009
Cheney Agonistes
(8 comments) Hey, Dick...Pick up today's Times and read the whole piece. Do a google search using your name and the word "torture" and see what you get. Look, Dick, we all have our dark little secrets and perverse types of, um, entertainment. But, for most of us, those dark pleasures don't result in mega-death, war, and screaming human beings.

Thursday, April 16, 2009
Dump. Flush. Repeat.
(5 comments) In her televised apology for releasing a report that simply stated the truth, Napolitano noted that the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which bills itself as the nation's largest combat veterans group, defended the report. That reality was, of course, not reported by the slimy bastards who ranted and whined on talk radio about the unfairness of it all.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Dispatches From The Asylum: They're Loose!!!!
(1 comments) We want more tax breaks for the super-wealthy! We want less income for us! We want more home foreclosures! More bankruptcies! More cars repossessed! We don't want Obama interfering with the glories of Free Market Capitalism -- the pro-God, anti-gay, anti-abortion economic system that was given to us by the Almighty himself!

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Incoming!!
(9 comments) The threat is here; it speaks American English; it's Caucasian and mostly pot-bellied male; it dresses in Nazi-style drag and says "Seig Heil" a lot; some of it infests talk radio and television; it's cheerleaders include Boortz, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, and a whole sub-basement full of smelly, lesser right-wing cowards and squealers.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009
We Are Pirates and We Ate Way Too Much Iboga
(1 comments) You hijacked a US merchant vessel that does regular business with the US Defense Department? You are holding the ship's captain hostage? Are you this determined to die a fiery death? Give it up, pirates. Release the captain. Admit a terrible mistake and back out of the room. Quickly. You will lose this game of high-seas grab-ass.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Sarah Smile
(9 comments) Drooling threats to freedom and sanity such as Beck -- he of the darting eyes -- apparently have convinced Palin, still reeling from her daughter's public confession that she -- the daughter -- and her boyfriend sometimes had sex without a condom (which just might explain the younger Palin's surprise, um, pregnancy), that this week's missile "launch" by North Korea is a dire threat to Alaska.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Avoidance and Denial
(6 comments) Fear of nationalizing this country's banking system is a good example of the sort of hesitancy that could result in the complete unraveling of our economy, leaving us in a near-dead, "third world" state from which it will take generations to recover -- if recovery is possible at all.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Miss Universe
(2 comments) She had a loooot of fun. Shouldn't that be lotttt instead of loooot? Anyway, that's how Miss Universe, Dayana Mendoza, began her report on the really groovy time she had visiting our very own torture facility. The men in the torture cells probably will have memories of Guantanamo Bay, too. Um, maybe scars? - physical and emotional?

Monday, March 30, 2009
It's The End Of The World As We Know it
(5 comments) Whew, what a day, right? A president of the U.S. is taking extreme measures to save capitalism (again) and the right-wing moon-bats claw and scream and kick and foam and demand to be left to die penniless and without hope. (Yawn.) Just another day in Crazyville.

Monday, March 16, 2009
Crazy Bastards
(6 comments) As further proof that this country is chock-a-block with idiots and morons - not to mention Limbots who are so removed from reality they will continue to spit on the very ideas designed to help them recover from the economic swamp created by eight years of Republican "leadership," I offer as evidence the newest right-wing media-inspired insanity, the "Tea Party."

Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Insanity
(3 comments) Do we have to experience a national catastrophe so profound it will make the iconic Great Depression seem like an historic blip on the global economic continuum? Apparently, we do. And the crashing of the U.S. economy we are now both witnessing and being absorbed by will viciously accommodate.

Thursday, January 29, 2009
Bipartisanship
(5 comments) The House vote tally yesterday was 244 to 188 in favor of Barack Obama's plan to save an economy (and a country) that Bush and the Republicans have nearly destroyed. Every single Republican voted against the legislation. Eleven Democrats decided to join the swine who want to see the country sink further into the economic morass that is the real legacy of George W. Bush.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Advice from . . . whom?
(4 comments) maybe it's time to stop with the kissy-face, make-nice, we're all in this together routine and realize your true enemy -- the force that wants to end your presidency, along with the American middle class, and the country itself. We're not all in this together. There is a serious enemy that skitters across the floors at night. That enemy is . . . Republicans.

Monday, January 26, 2009
Death Wish
(2 comments) The usual collection of Republicans Who Truly Don't Like Americans are assembled once again, this time to do as much damage as they can to Obama's plan to rescue the economy from George W. Bush's eight years of violence and neglect. Republicans - as the Pigman so aptly put it on his radio program - really do want to see Barack Obama (and the nation) fail.

Thursday, January 22, 2009
Terrorism
(3 comments) Sir Gerald Kaufman is a Jewish Member of the British Parliament. He said the claim that many of the Palestinian victims were militants "was the reply of the Nazi" and added: "I suppose the Jews fighting for their lives in the Warsaw ghetto could have been dismissed as militants."

Monday, January 12, 2009
Exit Laughing
(2 comments) So are we to be left no accountability for the crimes committed repeatedly, relentlessly, arrogantly over an eight-year period? Will there not even be a "truth commission" of some sort modeled perhaps on that used by South Africa following the end of apartheid? Is the fear that such a commission might be forced, after taking testimony and hearing witnesses, to recommend legal action by the Obama Justice Department?

Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Peace On Earth
Happy Holidays: Winter Solstice; Hanukkah; Christmas. Each celebrates peace, light, love. Would that we could join the celebrations . . .

Monday, December 22, 2008
The Winter Solstice
(1 comments) We have given the darkness its due, we've watched it leach the light from our lives for as long as we had to; now the long night is over, we can tentatively bring our own lights back from hiding, and let the new days begin.

Thursday, December 18, 2008
In The Beginning . . .
(12 comments) Obama has selected to give the Inaugural invocation a homophobic, anti-female, Rapture-Ready, mega-church pastor who believes that six thousand years ago, after GOD had created just about everything, a talking snake seduced Eve's mind and the result of that seduction had a profound influence on the course of human history and released evil into the world.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008
How Does it Feel?
(13 comments) I have a question for all those working-class Democrats-especially the ones employed directly or indirectly by the US auto industry-who in the 80s became so-called "Reagan Democrats" and voted Republican for the next 20 years. Gven the attitude being displayed by Senate Republicans where it concerns a rescue plan for your industry, your job, your life, how do you feel now about your abandonment of the Democratic Party?

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
BOOM!
The AP reports Rod was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps over the last month conspiring to sell or trade the vacant Senate seat for personal benefits for himself and his wife, Patti. If there were no bidders or the jack offered was not high enough ol' Rod considered appointing himself. "If they're not going to offer me anything of value I might as well take it."

Wednesday, December 3, 2008
GLORY!
(3 comments) The Senate Democrats find themselves yet again cowering in the corner, whimpering, sucking their thumbs, acting like abused children or battered spouses because Democratic challenger Jim Martin was defeated by the incumbent Republican Saxby Chambliss. (Oh, help us, someone! Please! The Republicans are going to HURT us. Again.)

Monday, December 1, 2008
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
(2 comments) We - millions of us - must have misunderstood. During the Democratic primaries and the general election just past, I could've sworn I heard Barack Obama talking about - insisting upon - change. At least, I thought that's what I heard.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Hunger in the U.S. -- November 2008
(1 comments) An estimated 40,000 people converged on a Colorado farm to collect free food. The farm owners had expected between 5,000-10,000 people, but found themselves inundated with fars and people with sacks and wagons and barrels ready to harvest whatever was available.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Three Blind Mice
(2 comments) Congress is considering a bail-out? $25 billion? Where were these "lawmakers" when the auto executives were intimidating them into believing simple mileage increases or catalytic converters or safety modifications or anything reasonable or sensible added to the design of Detroit's gas-eating behemoths would somehow sink the entire industry. What sort of hearings were held then?

Thursday, October 30, 2008
Flop Sweat
The Old Pimp is losing in Florida, right? His poll numbers are tanking faster than you can say "hanging chad," right? And...and...there are lots of Jewish voters in Florida, right? Well, then, they can be fooled again, right?

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Remember, Remember, the 5th of November...
(7 comments) When have the citizens of this - or any other - society truly had the power promised by casting a ballot? And yet, troop to the Diebold machines we must. Not to do so would bring the scorn of our neighbors and a certain self-loathing made more painful by the ever present media directive: Vote! Or shut up! Or consider yourself a terrible citizen, worthy of banishment!

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Demons. Devils. Republicans. Oh, My...
(2 comments) When Palin's asked to consider a nuclear attack on Russia after having risen to the presidency because face cancer ate McCrazy's head -- is that when Palin screeches out the names of demons? Babbles for Jesus' protection? Spins in circles while thunder and vile odors and otherworldly screams roll and reverberate through the White House?

Thursday, September 18, 2008
Brain Damage
(8 comments) Seriously, is Sarah Palin still McCrazy's running mate? What's it gonna take to get this freakish church lady's staccato gibberish out of everyone's ears? I'm waiting for that melt-down moment - that I hope will come during her VP "debate" with Biden - when her arms shoot straight up in the air, her eyes roll back in their sockets, her head starts to bob, and she starts shrieking in tongues.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The Gruesome Twosome (Cont'd...)
(1 comments) He's a sick joke. She's a religious freak. Together, they clearly identify the Republican Party.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
The Uncle Charlie Interview
He is vetted by the Christo-Freaks. "Amen," they agree. "Uncle Charlie will do." They hand him the list of questions. The lights dim in the studio specially designed for lipstick-pig woman's Big Moment. There is a rustling sound. In the distance, a dog barks.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Crash...
(1 comments) So, the lost souls call themselves "PUMAs" which, I've learned, means "Party Unity My Ass." Wow. That's really cool. Has such a Middle School, pre-teen flavor to it. "Two bits, Four bits, Six bits, a Dollar! All for Hillary, Stand up and Holler!" Ya-aaaaaay! (Shriek! Shriek! Scream! Scream! Jump up and down! Sob! Pull your hair!)

Monday, August 25, 2008
Lord of the Credit Cards
(2 comments) there's so much more about Senator Biden's legislative efforts that brings smiles to the faces of the Blessed Corporate Overlords who have funded so much of the Democratic Party, who have written check after check, sometimes even more (gasp!) than to Republicans, who now can relax, don't worry, it's been handled, all is okay, we're home free, Bush is on the way out, the new "Bush" is in the wings.

Thursday, August 21, 2008
Stranger Than Fiction...
(9 comments) Well, now we know. Thank goodness, too. For the past seven years it's just been driving me crazy. How in the world did WTC number 7 manage to collapse if it was not hit by anything during the 9/11 attack and no explosives were set deliberately. Sheesh, what a mystery . . .

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The Shoe Lady Speaks...
(4 comments) The hot war raging between Russia and the Republic of Georgia is yet another indicator of both Rice's uselessness and the ongoing global ahaos perpetrated by the Cheney cabal. His acid fingerprints are all over this destructive confrontation.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
August...
(3 comments) It's not difficult for me to imagine another early August morning 63 years ago; to invent another cute little four-year-old girl working in the garden with her mother or grandmother. Instead of north Georgia, however, this imaginary little girl is digging holes in the ground and spreading mulch around azalea bushes in the Chugoku region of western Honshu, the largest island in the archipelago that is the nation of Japan.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
(18 comments) Don't you think it's time, Ms. Speaker, for you to get the hell out of the way and allow the U.S. Constitution to function as the Framers intended? If you insist on ignoring your oath of office, so be it. But why not let the investigation - the equivalent to a criminal court preliminary hearing - begin? Or is there something in the impeachment testimony that might link you as a co-conspirator?

Monday, August 4, 2008
China, Bound
President Chucklenuts is off to Asia to visit a handful of countries - including China on the opening day of the Olympics - as he spends the next seven days pissing off heads of state, embarrassing career U.S. embassy staffs, making goofy remarks at inopportune times, and demonstrating yet again the utter stupidity that the rest of the civilized world is convinced must be rampant in the U.S.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
Republican Slime
(1 comments) McCain, working willingly with the same Republican filth that engineered Bush's twin thefts of the presidency over two superior candidates, Al Gore and John Kerry, now finds himself where he is most comfortable–in the political gutter. His handlers understand his campaign for president is going nowhere. The country is not in the mood for another half-witted Repub thug who will continue on the course to national destruction.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Mike Malloy: Keep It Lit...
(3 comments) The families that have been destroyed by the prison time that results from violation of marijuana laws are innumerable. Who keeps track? Who cares? The anguish of children separated from parents who are sentenced to decades in a lock-up for growing or selling or just smoking reefer is horrific and from which the kids may never recover.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Mike Malloy: At Work in the Fields of the Lord
On March 26, 2007, Goodling canceled her upcoming appearance at a Congressional hearing, citing her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. In its history, no Department of Justice employee has ever exercised his/her Fifth Amendment rights with respect to official conduct, and remained an employee.

Monday, July 28, 2008
Fly-Fishing Lessons
(5 comments) Cheney's staff insisted sick vets be locked down(!)for two hours before Cheney's arrival and not be allowed to leave until he'd finished talking. No exceptions. Not even a bathroom break. According to the Daily News, "Many of the vets are elderly and left pieces of themselves on foreign battlefields, and others were crippled by recent service. For health reasons, many can't be stuck in a room for hours."

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Mike Malloy: Repetition and Irritation
(1 comments) what better gift to the Democrats this election season than T. Boone's TV ad? Republicans running for office across the country must be peeing their pants every time it plays. One of the centerpieces of a typical fear-saturated Republican political campaign is the lie that all we gotta do is, well, dig more holes. And up will bubble more oil.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Malloy: Coup de Foudre
(2 comments) Will the Israelis and the Palestinians - at the sight of the Mighty Obama striding across the HOLY LAND - fall into each other's arms and shriek their mutual love and forgiveness and lower their eyes and whisper their shame at the way they've all been behaving for the past six goddam DECADES???? Huh? Will that happen?

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
"You Have My Number..."
(1 comments) How did they do it? How did the Bush Crime Family (BCF) so easily assemble such a collection of amoral, neo-con apparatchiks so willing to subvert the U.S. Constitution and so eager to operate - as they have demonstrated again and again during these horrific Bush/Cheney years - with such complete contempt for the law; any law?

Monday, July 21, 2008
Blockbuster
(3 comments) After seven plus years of this phony and corrupt Bush regime, I am, as are millions of people across the planet, saturated and numbed with the perversity of their actions, in addition to being simply tired of it all. Hannah Arendt was, of course, correct. There is an element of banality infused in the persona of every person who has ever opted for acts of pure evil.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Is Jesse Helms in Hell?
(6 comments) Ol' Jesse was a real godly man, a Christian till the Lord called him home. In fact, what you want to bet that right now ol' Jesse and The Lord aren't sitting around up there in Heaven having a good old-fashioned roll-your-own like they did before tailor-mades came out?

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Los Federales
(2 comments) Our very own War Criminal is correct. For the U.S. to join the Court in the age of the Bush Crime Family is completely, incontrovertibly "off the table" as Nancy Pelosi would say in a different context. The crimes against humanity committed by the Bush Regime are well-documented. The record is there, over which future historians will puzzle and scratch their heads in amazement.

Monday, July 14, 2008
The "Ownership Society"
(16 comments) in the final days of this completely corrupt Bush/Republican enterprise, one after another, financial institution after financial institution, all are collapsing, sucked dry, utterly hollowed out, every single asset stolen, and all of it engineered by the most outlaw organization in history.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Contempt
(4 comments) The contempt arises from two primary sources: First, the cowardice displayed by every single operative in the Bush Crime Family where it concerns combat in the wars they force on innocent civilian populations. Do any of these Conservative scum join in the chaos they have created? Do any of their media sycophants? Their offspring?

Monday, June 30, 2008
Prime Directive
(4 comments) The Prime Directive of the Thunderous Killing Machine is to get the oil. Just get the oil. Smash anything and everything that impedes or delays or attempts to prevent that directive. When Corporate America builds a Killing Machine such as the one murdering not just Iraq, but also the U.S. Constitution, this country's honor, and the rule of law, everything is incidental to the Prime Directive: Get The Oil!

Thursday, June 26, 2008
Torture R Us (Almost)
(3 comments) President Chucklenuts says the United States does not torture. But the CIA has admitted using waterboarding, (near-drowning) and a recent Justice Department probe cited cases of "short shackling" and other physical techniques like hanging, rape, beatings and death. To Chucklenuts that's not torture, that's fraternity hazing.

Monday, June 23, 2008
A few emails regarding the death of George Carlin
(3 comments) Me? I'll miss him. I'll miss knowing he's here, on the planet. I'll miss his humor, his pissed-off, ironic view of everything, his refusal to be sucked into the vortex. I'm not even going to attempt a remembrance piece. He would look at me cockeyed and ask why are you doing that?

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
I Don't Remember...
(1 comments) One of the thugs giving testimony was former Pentagon General Counsel William Haynes, who retired in April after his nomination to the federal judiciary went nowhere. In front of the Senate panel he pled ignorance. "No sir, I don't remember it at the time," he said when asked if he had received a memo authorizing the illegal "enhanced interrogation" [torture] techniques.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Stop the Queers!
(6 comments) The National Homophobes (no, it's not a sports team) are clawing at the scenery in great anticipation of their move to undo the recent ruling by the California Supreme Court. That ruling said simply that the equal protection clause of the state's constitution means just that and that gays, just like non-gays, can get married.

Monday, June 16, 2008
Father's Day
The questions are endless and work back, eventually (always) to slavery and the Middle Passage and the denial of humanity, and no right to define one's own sovereignty, and no hope for freedom, and no continuity of family, and no generational memory of home. These are among the reasons there are missing fathers and disintegrating familes.

Thursday, June 12, 2008
Not Dead Yet
(2 comments) Just when it becomes easy to believe the United States has truly become enmeshed, trapped, immobilized, in George W. Bush's brand of corporate controlled Fascism, the Supreme Court rules as it did today. Maybe there is hope for our abused and battered nation.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
An Apology
(17 comments) This morning it was all over the front pages of those two Newspapers Of Record, The New York Times and The Washington Post. News stories. Opinion pieces. Timelines of crimes committed by these corrupt Bush Administration bastards. Ah, it was glorious. For the first time in my life I was proud, proud I tell you, to be an American. Justice would prevail. The nation would adhere to its founding document. Honor would be restored.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Closin' Time
Remember this? Senator Clinton in a news conference the day Senator Obama won the Wyoming caucuses last March - "Senator McCain will bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign. I will bring a lifetime of experience, and Senator Obama will bring a speech that he gave in 2002..."