Afutilestan (IV)

Afghan President Hamid Karzai telling American taxpayers to bend over and spread ’em Each one of the nine events from this last week that I noted in Afutilestan III are like separate rooms in a haunted house that Obama is navigating with a very dim candle. The war mongers amongst us lie in wait, trying to push him down the …

Afutilestan (III)

As President Obama continues his deliberations about what the hell to do about Afghanistan, this week saw a lot of fuel thrown on the fire: The number of US troops killed by the Taliban hit an all time monthly high. The Taliban showed they could strike anywhere, killing a dozen UN workers in their Kabul headquarters and shelling a five …

Palin’s New Book

Here at US we just received an advanced copy of the cover of Sarah Baracuda‘s highly anticipated first work of historical fiction biography, Going Rogue, and we thought we’d share it with you. Until the actual text becomes available,  we can only analyze the text on the cover itself. We found the main title, Going Rogue, confusing. “Going” is the …

Laura Ingraham: Right Into Teh Crazy Zone

Instead of Rod Serling standing invitingly at the crossroads of reality and the twilight zone, the wingut universe sees instead Yogi Berra and taken his legendary advice: When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Right into teh crazy zone. Exhibit One: Laura Ingraham’s appearance Sunday on This Week With George Stepanopolus Too cowardly to make her …

Casualties Of The Status Quo (Updated)

New ad from Americans For Stable Quality Care According to a study by the American Journal of Medicine, some 62% of bankruptcies in the US in 2007 occurred as a result of crushing medical expenses. In 2001, the percentage was 46.2%. CNN estimates that for 2009, the number of bankruptcies could reach 1.5 million. Multiply that by the number of individuals …

Late Night: Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft

The Grand Universe is the present organized and inhabited creation. It consists of the seven superuniverses, with an aggregate evolutionary potential of around seven trillion inhabited planets, not to mention the eternal spheres of the central creation. But this tentative estimate takes no account of architectural administrative spheres, neither does it include the outlying groups of unorganized universes. The present …