I don’t care much for organized religion and never did, really. Now don’t jump to any conclusions that I am an atheist, or an agnostic (although I doubt that…
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There is perhaps absolutely nothing in common between Saddam Hussein and Bill Cosby, other than on this July 1 they both made news for their rants against their respective causes.…
California’s governfuhrer is proving to be one slippery dude. Ahnold sidestepped his problems with drugs and groping women to win his office handily over an opponent weakened by a…
When Donald Rumsfeld now famously said that when you make people free they might do some “crazy things.” he was referring to the looting of the Iraqis after the cessation…
A friend sent me – as a joke – a calendar of the Reagan Library. There’s a different photo of Ronnie for each month, smiling his cheerful, but somewhat…
The Very Hungry Caterpillar was reputedly the president’s favorite childhood book. Since books often influence the course of people’s lives it might well have been that a tale about the…
When all the meteorological elements align just so, a “perfect storm” might eventuate. The term received great currency by the publication of Sebastian Junger’s book with that title, and…
The venerable American flag was flown and festooned from everything (but mostly SUVs) in the aftermath of 9-11. One felt almost like a terrorist not to have a flag on…
Well, consider this: we live in a country that impeached a sitting president for having consensual oral sex, and will likely do nothing to a president who is responsible for his troops forcing Iraqi prisoners…
OK, fashioning a set of medals for the abusers and torturers of Iraqi detainees is perhaps a bit of twisted irony. But then the Boosh war on Iraq is…