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After years of professional starvation as a 'working musician', DC found his way to Taiwan where he has lived and taught English as a foreign language for 18 years - fourteen of them married blissfully to Yashan 'Linda' Huang.
"Having lived outside the USA, away from the incessant daily blather of info-tainment that sadly passes for news reportage and journalism, I think I can safely claim a more international point of view than most in the US who live within the corporate media's 'cone of silence' yet are inundated with spin-sters, shock-jocks and Faux News blow-hards."
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Obama is Beating the Drum about Iran - Where's the change?
It's ironic and hypocritical that the USA fires off missiles as a regular part of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq for years, killing hundreds and thousands of innocent women and children and then raises a political stink about Iran test firing unarmed missiles within their own territory. The irony and the hypocrisy hardly ends there. The USA must look to its own non-compliance as a signatory of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
Monday, September 28, 2009 Waking up; Wising up
We're beginning to see a rising tide of 'middle-class' activists. They need to be weaned away from the pseudo-populist, demogogic rabble-rousers or we're all in for bad times.
Thursday, September 3, 2009 Obama: a Product of Corporate Marketing
Many will be abhorred by what award-winning investigative journalist, John Pilger, has to say about President Obama. Many will ignore Pilger's thesis altogether but will pounce on his cited examples as proof positive that Dubya was right all along but that Obama is still a socialist. Or a fascist. Or Kenyan. Or not really the president cuz it say so in the Bible.
Saturday, February 14, 2009 Regarding the GOP
To quote George Carlin...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 From ARREST BUSH Facebook: Call Eric Holder
Eric Holder has been confirmed as the U.S Attorney General. This is the moment we have all been waiting for and we must seize this opportunity to seek justice for all of those who have lost their lives and for our country to establish the rule of law and to ensure that no one is above the law.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 A Heart-felt Tribute to Richard B Cheney (2 comments)
After 8 years in the White House as Vice President and his many years of public service in Washington, much can be said of Mr Cheney.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 Obama! What are you doing, brother?
[eye]Protest Obama's cabinet choices or this ain't gonna be change we need but the same old same old for years to come.
Sunday, October 26, 2008 Phun Presidential Phacts: not-so-trivial trivia
Here's a little brain-teaser the answer to which will make any Liberal or Progressive suffer gastro-intestinitis and probably make many Libertarians and old-school Conservatives blanch.
Saturday, October 25, 2008 How IS the Weather underground?
The MCPalin campaign is still trying to hunt for votes with the 'Bill Ayers' doggerel.
Friday, October 24, 2008 Fun With Fascism
Is your community sinking into despotism?
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Hope is a man called 'Ralph' (7 comments)
If Obama actually avoids the traditional Democratic stumble at the finish line, he should make Ralph Nader a member his cabinet.
Saturday, October 18, 2008 The Palinator in the Oval Office
Caution: the danger of a catastrophic spit-take should not be taken lightly when operating electronic equipment. Don't say you weren't warned.
Friday, October 17, 2008 McCain Nails It!
and hits his thumb in the process...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 What Could Be Stupider?
Boiling the market melt-down down to its essence.
Monday, October 13, 2008 Questions re: our oil addiction
It's never too late for intervention to face and overcome an addiction and asking questions is a vital part of the process.
Sunday, October 12, 2008 From a Nobel Laureate (2 comments)
Dedicated to all those who still think the Bush/Cheney presidency was a 'god-send' - there must a be a few 'dead-enders' out there.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 Happy 7th Anni-war-sary!? (2 comments)
Break out the Champagne (or sparking wine) and celebrate the capture of bin-Laden, the collapse of al Qaeda and the defeat of the Taliban!
Friday, October 3, 2008 Just goes to show you...
She's cute and sassy and her country bumpkin routine is about as refreshing as a re-run of 'Hee-Haw'.
Thursday, October 2, 2008 The Middle-class is not a Monolithic Entity
After watching the VP tete-a-tete - another hour wasted in front of the tube - the term 'middle-class' started grating on my nerves almost as much as the Governor's shrill squawking.
Thursday, October 2, 2008 McCain sticks his foot in it
McMaverick finds out democracy is messy when the people get involved.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 Palin, McCain and Couric
More semi-lucid imbecility from the Codger and the MILF - this time in tag-team!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 Come on....Palin's a Governor? Of what?The state of Ignorance?
[[SPGrey]]As much as I detest all of this blather about Sarah Palin and as much as I see her addition to the Repugnican ticket as a Rovian tactic to distract us from the real issues and the simple fact that McCain doesn't have a clue, nevertheless...
Sunday, September 28, 2008 A Worrisome Observation
While the US pumps money down various rat-holes, the deserts are being made to bloom.
Sunday, September 28, 2008 An '-ism' by any other name
A much appreciated lesson in politically correct vocabulary
Sunday, September 21, 2008 Bowling for Bolivia - 'They Shot the Children'
While the wheels fall off on Wall Street and the Big Wheels get bailed out to keep on turning, the economic hit-men have sparked a rebellion and caused a massacre in Bolivia.
Saturday, September 20, 2008 'Georgia on My Mind'
A tortured rendition of an old classic by the CIA.
Thursday, September 18, 2008 Fundamentally speaking, Mr McCain... (2 comments)
No, that number's not from the odometer on the Starship Enterprise nor the distance from here to the center of the galaxy.
Friday, September 12, 2008 They're at It Again!
Like murderous 2-year olds, you can't take your eyes off of them for a moment. they're making war with an ally, now!
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Call Me Paranoid, but... (5 comments)
Observations re: the dropping price of crude, US forces in Iraq, the strengthening dollar, etc
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Four Dead in Minnesota? (10 comments)
Putting the illegal arrest of political activists and storm-trooper raids on private residences into perspective.
Sunday, August 31, 2008 Nothing Personal, Senator McCain (1 comments)
The relentlessly chanted mantra of John McCain's campaign has been his POW experience. One must ask,"What he was doing in Vietnam?" "Why was he there in the first place?"
Saturday, July 12, 2008 Bush Never Lied About Iraq (17 comments)
A not-so-modest rebuttal of an op-ed by James Kirchick, assistant editor of the New Republic
