“I’d have killed a thousand if I had bullets enough.”

Well, an army psychiatrist purportedly went off his rocker and shot a bunch of folks in Fort Hood, Texas. I say purportedly, because there is only one thing about this case we can be absolutely certain of. The army will lie. The US military is under absolutely no obligation to tell the truth about anything, [...]

The New World Disorder, why I don’t worry about World Government

This is kind of a generalist conspiracy theory post. There’s conspiracy theories about an incipient USA police state, North American Union government, world government, or some combination of the three. And as I’ve said before, no one has a crystal ball, and human history has gone down all sorts of unexpected and unlikely paths before [...]

Politically Charged Current Events Post

The feedback on my “letter to my readers” post has been useful so far, spartan, but useful. Current events posts do tend to be popular, and even better, they are relatively easy to write. On the other hand, as was pointed out, they tend to get stale rather quickly. On the gripping hand, they are [...]

A Letter To My Readers

Botanical Gardens in Bucharest, Roumania
Never fear, this is actually good news for a change. I am making good progress on a companion web site to Doug’s Darkworld, where much of my writing will be available in a more organized and coherent fashion. This will both simplify this site and allow me to concentrate more on [...]

“Right-wingers are telling children to skip school as a protest against Obama’s encouragement of students to stay in school”

The title pretty much says it all, we have gone from beyond partisan politics into some strange new world where no matter what Obama suggests, it must be some nefarious socialist plot. Yes, Obama is “indoctrinating” our kids, just for starters, but it gets worse. Terms like brainwashing, communist China, and Hiter Youth have been [...]

The first thing we do, lets kill all the investment bankers.

Well, I recently read a few interesting articles: Californians Lose $1 Billion From Unconstitutional Bond Sales and The Looting of America: How Wall Street Fleeced Millions from Wisconsin Schools. Even if one doesn’t have the time and inclination to read them, note that one is from an unabashedly liberal site, while Bloomberg.com is owned by [...]

Health Care, Shmealth Care, what’s all the fuss about?

Health Care. OK, this seems to be a touchy topic, so what the hell, I’ll wade right in. My last basically throwaway post sure got a lot of comments, I’ll see what we can generate this time. For today’s post, I’m going to proceed from the general to the specific. IE I will make some [...]

Goliath, meet David.

What a week. I had a crisis at work so was unable to process various posts I am working on. I will spare my readers the details, but a  former client and I had a billing dispute. I charge well below market value as it is, so it was really annoying to have my very [...]

Obama, Iraq, Af-Pak, history, French prostitutes win a battle, and other random and insightful thoughts

There have been a few posts getting some comments back and forth. Maybe there is some way I can include this in a sidebar, but for now I’ll just mention them here. The first is the “1 shot 2 kills” post and the other is the “World’s First Eyewitness” post. Join the discussion if you [...]

Bank Hostage Crisis Continues Into Its Sixth Month as Hostage Takers Continue to Up Their Demands

Well, there was such jolly news about the US economy, I thought it would make a good post. The latest report said that last quarter’s GDP, roughly a broad measure of the nation’s economy, fell at an annual rate of 6.3%, the worst drop in 26 years. People making unemployment claims just rose to a [...]