Afutilestan VIII

Rep. Alan Grayson introducing his War Is Making You Poor Act on the House floor As we look back to honor the fallen on Memorial Day, the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan grind on. Afghanistan, in its ninth year, is already the longest war in US History and Iraq, at seven years, is not far behind. On May 21, …

Beckasaurus Dasillyass

The Man with a plan— Beck uses Malia Obama as a human shield to protect himself from a red ripe invective hurled by an angry ex-fan, when he publicly mocked the child after declaring children of politicians “off-limits.”

Nuke It Closed?

Matt Simmons’ interview on Bloomberg News Forty days and forty nights– that’s how long the rupture of BP’s Macondo Well has been spilling its oily guts into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of nearly a million gallons per day. That is,  if you accept the twice revised estimates of BP and the US government that initially pegged the …

What Happens When We Die?

Most of us, if we think about our inevitable death at all, usually only think of one kind of death: the physical cessation of life. But there are really three kinds of death: Physical (body and mind) death; Intellectual (mind) death; and Spiritual (soul) death.

Sometimes You’re The Windshield, Sometimes You’re The Bug

A Dire Straits message for President Obama Is President Obama suffering from Stockholm Syndrome brought on by the D.C. culture of Regulatory Capture corruption he inherited? Regulatory capture occurs when a state regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead acts in favor of the commercial or special interests that dominate in the industry or sector it is …

Vaya Con Dios, Dennis Hopper

Easy Rider became the cinematic symbol of the 1960s, a celluloid anthem to freedom, macho bravado and anti-establishment rebellion.