Whenever I find myself holding hands with political Pollyannas, and someone foolishly yells “Red Rover Red Rover, send Chris Hedges right over,” I cringe, close my eyes, and wait for the impact of the Tasmanian Devil himself. Seriously, this guy’s columns should come with a warning label: “Not to be read by anyone displaying signs of clinical depression or …
Sometimes I wish I believed in reincarnation. I mean, if all of history’s most prominent psychopaths had reincarnated at the same time, and through their manipulative talents came to occupy positions of power, there could hardly be a better explanation for the situation we find ourselves in today.
Updating the ancient Greek myth of the Chimera The New York Times weighs in on presidential wannabe Sarah Palin‘s commemoration of what would have been the 100th birthday of conservative icon, Ronald Reagan: SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Sarah Palin opened a weekend centennial celebration to Ronald Reagan by declaring that the United States was lurching toward a “road to ruin,” …
Apologies to Thomas Nast for borrowing his September 23, 1871 cartoon captioned: “A Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to ‘Blow Over’—‘Let Us Prey” Yes, that’s Satan’s lapdog, Carl Rove behind her, so to speak. . . The media shit-storm over the assassination slur probably hasn’t reached full pitch yet, but who really expects it to even momentarily …
From Nico Pitney, a mosaic of photos of Americans fallen in Iraq. McCain says US succeeding in Iraq [Catastrophuck] LIZ SIDOTI HufPo CHULA VISTA, Calif. — Fresh off his eighth Iraq visit, Sen. John McCain declared Monday that “we are succeeding” and said he wouldn’t change course _ even as the U.S. death toll rose to 4,000 and the war …
