“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, [...]

Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize and other random nonsense

I haven’t written lately because I have been sinking into despair at the state of the world. Or more specifically at the general state of mental acuity in the world, especially what I see in the USA. I did some research recently and discovered that 15% of American’s think the government was complicit in 9/11. [...]

Israel’s Generous Offer

This is the “final offer” Israel put on the table for Yasser Arafat at the Camp David Peace conference in 2000. This was the offer that Arafat refused, and was soundly pilloried in the west for doing so. I mean, he was offered something like 91% of the occupied territories, what more do the Palestinians [...]

90 years ago today the War to End All Wars ended, ushering in the decades of peace and prosperity the world has enjoyed since.

“We set to work to bury people. We pushed them into the sides of the trenches but bits of them kept getting uncovered and sticking out, like people in a badly made bed. Hands were the worst; they would escape from the sand, pointing, begging – even waving! There was one which we all shook [...]

Georgia Preys on my Mind

I’m having a hard time getting over how propaganda is simply being passed on by the American media as if it were fact, and the whole Georgia crisis is portrayed pretty much exactly the way the Bush administration wants it portrayed. And like so many mindless droids, Americans watch the “news” and think they [...]

Shinichi’s Tricycle

Shinichi Tetsutani was a three year old boy who loved to ride his new red tricycle. 63 years ago this day he was riding his trike in his front yard. He was playing with his friend Kimiko. It was 8:15 in the morning. A quarter mile away there was a bright flash in the sky. [...]

Did Bush Blink?

In what can only be described as a breathtaking about face, there are reports that the USA will be establishing limited diplomatic relations with Iran, including sending diplomats to Tehran for the first time in nearly thirty years. The US is also breaking with policy and sending a top diplomat to European talks with [...]

FREEDOM ROCKS IN BERKELEY

After going by the demonstration and counter-demonstration in Berkeley today, I am pleased to report that there is still hope for the republic. There was lots of furious rhetoric, but for the most part people were remarkably calm and well behaved. And while the main groups were on opposite sides of the street, people [...]

“Code Pink” vs “MoveAmericaForward”

Today is the showdown between Code Pink/antiwar activists and MoveAmericaForward and others regarding the Marine Corps Recruiting Center in Berkeley. Ah, the smell of tear gas in the morning! Has the sixties returned to Berkeley? Of course not, the sixties are dead and gone, times change. History may reflect the past, history may resemble [...]

My Cats are Plotting Against Me

OK, so I let my cats out a few hours before dawn. Awhile later I hear the sound of fighting cats in the yard. I figure it’s the stripy orange guy, he fears nothing and will fight any cat on the planet. While I am getting dressed I can hear the fight is getting [...]