I Don’t Get Worked Up About Movies – But This!!!
John le Carre, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, George Smiley played by Gary Oldham. Does it get any better than this?
The Mound of Sound
A Marriage Made in Hell
Pakistan and the United States, bride and groom, betrothed in a supposed war on terrorism. But there never was any love, no trust, hardly any common ground. It was never…
A New Middle East Reality
Oh my, my. Mahmoud Abbas has called Barack Obama's bluff and applied to the United Nations for Palestinian statehood. It will fall to the United States to veto the motion,…
Guess Who’s Back?
Full marks if you guessed Vlad Putin. As expected, his United Russia Party has approved another job swap. Current president Dmitri Medvedev will slip back into his old job as…
Georgia Board of Pardons Commutes Death Sentence – For White Killer
Just two days after black inmate Troy Davis was executed, the Georgia Board of Pardons commuted the death sentence of white inmate David Crowe to life imprisonment.Let's see: Crowe is…
Make Room in Hell For One More
Serial child-killer Clifford Olson is dying. That sick, twisted monster is said to be dying of cancer and to be just days from breathing his last.
General Walt, Answer Me This
So you wracked up a million bucks worth of jet taxi fares. Fine, maybe it was just a mistake, an error of judgment. Forget about reimbursement. Military types aren't paid…
Can You Feel Your Hide Thickening?
We're all going to get pretty thick skinned in the years and decades to come. The more you want to cling to your way of life and the greater the…
Taking Stock, Just With Better Metrics
Steve Harper may be in church today, probably seeking some sort of absolution for his sins, but the real altar at which jokers like Steve worship at is sepulcher of…
The IMF Comes to Its Senses – Income Inequality is Ruinous
It's about time. The International Monetary Fund, it seems, has opened its eyes and discovered that income inequality, the growing gap between rich and poor, is ruinous to modern economies.IMF…
America’s Climate Change Paralysis
An editorial in the environment section of today's Guardian ponders why, despite the onslaught of hurricanes, drought, floods and wildfires, America's political leadership and its media opinion makers, simply cannot…
The Wisdom of the Great – Mark Twain
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.""Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.""I have never let…
Scary Times In the Middle East
It's a bad time for Israel to be stuck with a boneheaded president like Benjamin Netanyahu. The neighbourhood is changing and Netanyahu's bad boy bully tactics have fallen out of…
But No, This Isn’t Class Warfare
From the far right "American Thinker," an item entitled, "Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American.""Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote?"Because they know…
Why Commemorate 9/11?
It's hard to determine what legitimate purpose there is in commemorating the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon. The difficulty arises…
In Washington, "Peace" Is a Dirty Word
They've utterly demonized the meaning of "liberal," driven "socialism" into the cellars of Lubyanka, transformed "entitlement" into something anything but deserved; and now they can no longer stand the foul…
What Do We Do If The Global Economy Fails?
The global economy is a relative newcomer, at least for most of us. There's always been global trade but it was subject to capital controls, tariffs and import restrictions. Then,…
America’s Iraq Mini- My Lai Massacre Erupts
A Wikileaks firebomb. This time it's a U.S. diplomatic cable indicating that, in 2006, American soldiers entered a house in the Iraqi village of Ishaqi, near Saddam Hussein's hometown of…
James Hansen Arrested at White House
He might be the world's foremost climate scientist. NASA Goddard Space Laboratory director, Dr. James Hansen was arrested outside the White House today while protesting against the Athabasca Tar Sands…