The Profits of Doom.
“I hate all Iranians.” That’s what Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, told a group of British Members of Parliament at a meeting. Isn’t that nice? I mean…isn’t is great that she hates ALL of ’em? I mean, why not? They are brown. They are unwilling to take…
Another suicide at Guantanamo. Years and years of detention, strange psychological games and bizarre, “no really, it ain’t torture” rituals led another evildoer to take his own life. Of course, the Pentagon doesn’t it call it suicide. The term is “an act of asymmetrical warfare.” Seriously. When three evildoers ended their life sentence early in June…
Memorial Day Weekend. It’s pure Americana. The kick-off to the Grilling Season, it is a three day intro to Summer for America’s families. Barbecues. Picnics. The first trip the beach. A time for the American Way of Life to be celebrated with copious amounts of beer and hot dogs. It is also a weekend of…
Inexplicable. Horrifying. Tragic. Shocking and senseless. The massacre at Virginia Tech inspires language of disbelief, fear and indignation. The media, politicians and pundits offer ponderous meanderings through a maze of confusion built by one gunman in a moment of vindictive violence. Once a name and a face, along with a thought-provoking package sent to NBC,…
It’s an elegant dance, the Texas Two-Step Side-Step. So far, Dubba-You’s Administration has danced around some of the most pernicious scandals in presidential history. Enron. WMDgate. Abramoff. The Department of Interior. Plamegate. And can you believe Halliburton is still the largest contractor in Iraq? It’s sorta impressive when you think about the things they’ve gotten…