“It doesn’t matter if the cast changes when the script remains the same.”

Not sure where I read my post headline, but it struck me as an apt description of the Obama administration. Or as I like to put it recently, the only difference between Bush and Obama is their skin tone. A concept the (possibly imginary) fellow above apparently doesn’t endorse. Apparently he was in a coma [...]

“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, [...]

Dictator Schmictator, what’s all the fuss?

Following up on last week’s post, a few observations on dictators. The “common knowledge” in the west is that they are always bad, with comparisons to Hitler usually cited to illustrate the point. So of course if some foreign leader is labelled a dictator by the west, people immediately assume the worst. And not only [...]

America, Land of Politically Correct Racism?

I saw this non news event a day or so ago and was going to pass right by it, but someone posted about it is one of my discussion groups. Then people commented on it. If spewing mindless invective can be called commenting. Sigh. So I was forced to actually examine the issue, which I [...]

Today’s mainstream media: “Based on true events.”

A reader suggested that mainstream news broadcasts these days should be preceded by a disclaimer like one sees in TV shows: “Based on true events.” Because that’s pretty much what’s going on. This latest business with Iran demonstrates that to a tee, while it is true that Iran revealed a nuclear fuel processing plant last [...]

I applied for Federal Stimulus Funds, and they sent me a clunker that had been crushed into a cube

Well, I guess I should have expected that. It’s been pretty much the story of my life lately. There comes a point where one gets really tired of making lemonade out of all the lemons zinging their way, and I never much liked lemonade in the first place. Life goes on though, as does Doug’s [...]

“Paranoia is reality on a finer scale.”

It’s been a weird week. And the high strangeness in the world is weirder too. The more I study world events and politics these days, the more disconnected from reality they seem. I suppose it’s always been the case to one degree or another every since the rise of the mass media in the nineteenth [...]

9/11 and 9/12 … The Hangover

Well, it’s over. Another 9/11 anniversary is past, yes the most memorialized crime in history once again reared its ugly head. I wrote my own 9/11 post, but it was so filled with anger I decided to forgo it. And while I was reviewing what every other pundit on the planet had to say about [...]

“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 [...]

Ok, now this is a little worrisome … guns at a pro health care reform rally? What’s up with that?

I’m assuming everyone in the country has now heard of people bringing guns to recent political events. Granted every pundit in the country has weighed in on this, but I’ve never let that stop me before. I’m not as excitable as some, guns sure do get people riled up.  It’s not clear whether these peeps [...]