Smokescreens, Snowjobs and Long Knives

There’s been a buzz on the net for the past few days that maybe, finally, Bush is going to get his comeuppance. Cunningham has been sentenced to hard time, Katharine Harris, the “President Maker”, is tainted by a related bribery scandal, Bush has...

Stupid Is as Stupid Does

It used to baffle me that people who can command literally billions and trillions of dollars can be so stupid. Surely they should know that Saddam, dead, executed by them, is a far more potent mythical symbol for focusing resistance than he ever was alive. I mean, how...
Amir Peretz and The Faith Based School of Politics

The Body Snatchers

“Look! You fools! You’re in danger! Can’t you see? They’re after you! They’re after all of us! Our wives…our children…they’re here already! You’re next!”  ~Dr. Miles Bennell, The Invasion of the Body...

Big Lies, Small Lies, Brazen Lies

We have been appalled for some time at the brazen character of the lies of the Bush Reich. (For a list of the “Top 40” lies told by the Bush Administration, see Steve Perry’s blog The Bush Wars.) The most brazen are: 1. Iraq has Weapons of Mass...