Before we glide out of 2011 once and for all, let’s take a look at this crap, which has been in the news on and off for a while now. No better person to write pungently about this kind of thing than Alex Cockburn in CounterPunch, former colleague and friend of Christopher Hitchens, but who [...]
There’s a special election in progress in NY district 9 for the Congressional seat vacated by Democrat Anthony Weiner, no need to go over why he vacated it, between Democrat David Weprin and Republican Bob Turner. To give some idea of the tone in the campaign, here’s a picture of a flyer mailed out by [...]
Just so we’re keeping an eye on this stuff, which is all that we can do in the present political climate, let’s visit briefly about the USA Patriot Act. Yes, the one that has now been twice renewed by request of the President, as per the sunset clause in the Act which requires Presidential request [...]
“If you’re standing on thin ice, you may as well dance.” – Jesse Winchester. I’m still going with my guess that Anders Behring Breivik, the suspect arrested in the Norwegian bombing/shooting attack, is a “home-grown” right-wing crazy, and the more I read today about the slowly emerging background details on the guy the more likely [...]
Here’s an interesting piece published yesterday – it seems that the youth camp in Utøya where (as of this writing) at least 80 people were killed, was politically active in the BDS Movement, which briefly stated is a movement opposed to Israel’s settlement building policy and supportive of a Palestinian State. A translation of the photo [...]