Ever wonder when you are going to kick it? The bucket, that is. Not the family dog, or yourself for bad choices. But the big bucket. Well, try the Life Expectancy Calculator! I did. It is, like anything on the internet that claims to give you answers to currently unknown questions…it’s mostly bullshit. (You’ve seen…
Republican Representative Curt Weldon is out. Swept away. Goose cooked. Gone. Yes, it was part of a larger rebuke of the GOP in the mid-term elections, but Weldon’s story is a bit more nuanced. A popular Congressman known for bringing home crispy bacon, Weldon’s re-election campaign got burned in the final weeks leading up to…
Blowback. When an action, policy or strategy causes unintended, unforeseen and unwelcomed consequences. Chalmers Johnson, historian and policy analyst extraordinaire, literally wrote the book on it. Titled “Blowback, Johnson writes convincingly about the consequences of our de facto, world-spanning empire, our history of covert fun and games and the hatred, resentment and complications those hijinx…