Posted in Just Plain Crazy, Media, Politics As Usual on Feb 28th, 2010
Charles Pierce is just as thrilled to read the praises of Newt Gingrich as I am… I think that the Parson Meacham over at Newsweek may have set the Sucking Up To Vicious Idiots bar so high that in response, Time may blow out an ACL trying to get over it. How else to explain [...]
Posted in Politics As Usual on Feb 27th, 2010
Posted in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Regime, War Crimes on Feb 27th, 2010
Posted in Arts & Music on Feb 27th, 2010
I really loved this movie, and so did my brother-in-law, whose job it was in Vietnam to disarm the booby-trapped bodies of American soldiers so they could retrieve them. I never understand why people get worked up about artistic license. No one ever said this was a documentary. Bookmark It
Posted in Arts & Music on Feb 27th, 2010
Posted in Class War, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Regime on Feb 27th, 2010
Yes, this is exactly my sense of things. I’ve always had an intuitive understanding that the world works in a very dark and different way from the official version, and I’m afraid I get very impatient with people who don’t see it. Jay Ackroyd over at Atrios’s place: At a conference I was at this [...]
Posted in Higher Ground, My So-Called Life on Feb 27th, 2010
There aren’t a lot of notions stores anymore – you know, for the kind of little odds and ends you could only find at the five and dime. Since there aren’t any of those stores anymore, I had to go to Kmart this morning to pick up some hand sewing needles and thread. I have [...]
Posted in Disastrous on Feb 27th, 2010
Tsunami update: About one hour ago, Reuters reported that a bulletin from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said: “Urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property.” The warning also noted: “All shores are at risk no matter which direction they face.” Live stream from Hawaii here. The news agency reported: Geophysicist Victor Sardina [...]
Posted in Arts & Music on Feb 27th, 2010
I just finished reading “The Incendiary,” a devastating novel by Chris Cleave, a columnist for the Guardian. It said in the book that they’d made a movie of it, and so I looked it up. In the book, the lead character finds out that the government knew about a massive London terror bombing two hours [...]
Posted in Disastrous on Feb 27th, 2010
UPDATE for my Hawaii readers: Hawaii is expected to get hit by the tsunami around 4pm est and they are predicting the first wave to be about 6 meters. Horrible. I’m trying to remember if there ever was an 8.8 in living memory. This is about 700 times stronger than the Haitian quake: A massive [...]
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