The Death of Conservatism

For your bumpers. Australopithecus Republicanus boisei brain-buckets must die off. Frank Rich. The tsunami of populist rage coursing through America is bigger than Daschle’s overdue tax bill, bigger than John Thain’s trash can, bigger than any bailed-out C.E.O.’s bonus. It’s even bigger than the Obama phenomenon itself. It could maim the president’s best-laid plans and what remains of our economy …

Flying Nightmares Dreams

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/1778399[/vimeo] No plans today? Try jumping off a ginormous cliff in a squirrel suit.

Sailing The Cyber Sea

My journey started over at Distributor Cap‘s place.  Just an innocent morning meander of our blog roll, since Blog Roll Amnesty Day is bearing down on the inter-toobers.  Getting to know the blogo-neighbors is really part and parcel of being a blogger in the first place;  it’s cyberspace exploration at it’s most exhilarating. Like Blue Gal, DC has one of …

Four Hundred Ten Children Are Dead

Jerusalem — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared a unilateral cease-fire in Gaza, saying, “Hamas has been dealt a very serious blow.  We can say that the conditions have been brought about that enable us to say that the aims that we laid down for the operation have been completely achieved.” “If foes decide to continue to fight against us, …

George W. Bush Liebrary

Controversial sculpture highlights the Bush Liebrary courtyard. (Click) DALLAS — The “Mission Accomplished” Sculpture Garden Annex to the George W. Bush Liebrary® was dedicated this week on the campus of Southern Methodist University, in a very brief ceremony honoring the achievement[s] of the outgoing chief executive.  The Annex is a publicly funded project which apposed the building of an oxymoronic …

Future News From The Other Side

Looking decidedly uncomfortable in the habiliments of their stature as last judgment defendants, George Bush and Dick Cheney stand before the Eternal Judge of the Ages. (Click) MANSONIA ONE — With eyes averted and lips cemented together as if to prevent himself from blurting out the truth, while his former vice-president grimaced and snarled in the face of his predicament, …

Apocalypse Arrives

I’m still annoyed that so many Christians are concerned about the supposedly impending destruction of the world as their apocalyptic myth would have it, and yet remain in total denial of the impending destruction of the world as it is actually unfolding via global ecological disaster. The best way to follow their endtimes fetish is, of course, through Apocalypse magazine.