Dec
02

WikiLeaks Proves DC Rancor is a Sham

Jayzus H. Christ, I go away from the Internet for a while and all hell breaks loose.  

Having shimmied back down the rabbit hole in the last couple of days, my eyes are now bleeding from reading all the sturm und drang over supposed terrorist/sex criminal Julian Assange and his pariah website, WikiLeaks.

OK, they’re not bleeding but my eyes are tearing up and I wish my head didn’t hurt the way it does from trying to piece together the cognitive disconnect over so many people not caring that the US has been waging multiple illegal wars and torturing innocent people for going on a decade, and now are suddenly turning into a rabid mob over the revelation that many things thinking people have long suspected of modern government S.O.P. turn out to be true. Read more…

Nov
12

You Knew This Was Coming

It looks like we can add to former President George W. Bush’s many appellations (including, but not limited to ex-cheerleader, reformed alcoholic, failed businessman and un-indicted war criminal) that of plagiarist.

Not surprising, actually, considering his past performance.

Be sure to click on the photo for more interesting information about our illustrious 43rd president and his interesting family.

Nov
09

This is How the Terrorists Won, Pt.2

I was speaking not long ago with a former law school classmate and we were ruminating on how the most sacrosanct constitutional right had come to be not the right to privacy — only the most naive among us ever believed that one — nor the right to Life (certainly not in the last remaining First World nation to still execute its prisoners), but the right, or freedom, to travel.

Interestingly enough, the Supreme Court didn’t enshrine it so out of beneficent respect for any freedom of the individual but rather as a vehicle for upholding the state’s authority to regulate (read: promote) interstate commerce.

Be that as it may, the eventual resolution of the ACLU’s lawsuit on behalf of 17 U.S. citizens and legal residents challenging their placement on the U.S. government’s No-Fly List and the failure of the government to give them a chance to defend themselves ought to be pretty interesting.

Read this sad tale to understand just one more reason why you ought to have little confidence an any assertion that says your constitutional rights have not diminished in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

And don’t think it couldn’t happen to you.

Oct
07

Happy Anniversary

To commemorate the 9th anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan, the American Friends Service Committee is sponsoring an exhibit of art entitled Windows and Mirrors — Reflections on the War in Afghanistan.

The exhibit, compiled from the work of more than 40 artists from around the world (including US and Afghan students), offers an opportunity to reflect on our identity as a nation at war.

The Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia hosts today’s opening; the exhibit will travel to New York in December and on to California and elsewhere in the new year.

I wrote this piece nine years ago, on the eve of the invasion.

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