Joe Lieberman is a Putz and a Scumbag!

The Kiss Fifteen years ago in Washington, D.C., I got talked into buying a ticket to a Lieberman fund raiser where I listened to him talk sanctimoniously out of both sides of his mouth, unctuously sucking up...

Iris Dement gets it on with John Prine video

John Prine wikibio Iris Dement wikibio Singer Iris DeMent refuses to perform in protest against Iraq war By David Walsh 26 March 2003 US country music singer and songwriter Iris DeMent announced to an...

Results of Bush Surge Poor in March Nearly Twice as Many American Soldiers Killed as Iraqi Army Troops

Although it's too early to pronounce the Bush surge a failure, in March U.S. soldiers killed were double the number of Iraqi soldiers killed, despite the fact that the plan calls for Iraqis to take the lead...

TIME MAGAZINE COVER--"We Are Fucked" and People cover "The Stupidest Man Alive!"

"A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida ; the one who hangs around here all the...

General George Patton's Iraq War Solution video

Patton Speech

Straws in the Wind 11-5-07

The nice vote goes to Huckabee. No other is as nice as he. He leads a decent sort of life. He's married to his only wife. His kids, we'd bet, still speak to him. He's courteous, but isn't prim. A cheerful fat...

Straws in the Wind January 11, 2008

ALZHEIMER'S EXPERIMENT PRODUCES HOPEFUL RESULTS Successful Alzheimer's therapy may be on the near horizon. Experiments with Enbrel an FDA-approved drug for rheumatoid arthritis show great promise for treating...

Bush's New Way Forward

ABC-TV's Mini-series on 9-11

The furor over ABC-TV's apparently slanted and innacurate "docudrama" on 911 is growing. And for good reason. ABC-TV's timing of the release is an obvious and crude attempt to use its public franchise to...

Out of the Iraq Frying Pan into the Afghanistan Fire?

NY Times Blog November 11-11-08 Twice in recent weeks otherwise excellent NY Times editorials endorsing and congratulating Barack Obama referred to the "necessary war in Afghanistan" without explaining what...