Category: Anger
America the Community
AMERICA THE COMMUNITY By Stan Hartman There is so little that is close and warm. It is as if we were never children. —Wallace Stevens Those are some of the saddest lines in the whole of American literature, yet they also point to an aspect of America that’s most deeply joyful— the sense of real family, and in a …
Someone’s Been Peeing in the Gene Pool Again
How else to explain a comments like this, captured by Dana Milbank in Tuesday’s WAPO: “I don’t care too much for Obama,” Maria Norgren, the daughter and granddaughter of steelworkers… “I don’t even think he’s American,” added her husband, Edward, who lost his job when the steel mills closed… “His father’s from Nigeria, right?” asked Maria, wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers …
RECIPE FOR DISASTER
UPDATED. . . McCain “Family Recipes” Lifted from the Bush Administration The MSM mouse circus has cooked up another diversionary dish ‘o shit this week, the main entrée being a few purloined recipes from the Food Chanel being tossed off as “family recipes” of the McCain family, (as if McCain could find her way to any one of her own …
BUSH VISITS MY OFFICE
Yep, Chimpy stopped by our office today. The hardcore software geeks have their own communal cell near the center of the campus circles. I was almost finished painting a mural on the last wall of their cube farm, one of four twenty foot tall stucco constraints with no windows; at least now the poor bastards would have something beautiful to …
When The Queen Bows Down
The endgame comes apace and we are left to face the ravaged queen displaced; the horse eye never quite diminished as She wanders ’round the corner.
Bush Would Volunteer For War If He Were Younger And Unemployed
In a March 13th videoconference call, President Bush surprised U.S. military and civilian personnel as well as recently returning veterans of the Afghanistan War with his wistful responses. “I must say, I’m a little envious,” Bush said. “If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines …