Oil: An American Tragedy
Oil, which over the course of many centuries, in many forms, has been highly beneficial to the human race, has finally come full circle, and is now the curse of the planet. This negative transformation has, of course, to do
Category: Social Commentary
The Dolan Dilemma
I got a big laugh today when my furious wife forwarded this piece of trash to me, demanding that I reply to Cardinal Timothy Dolan with one of “Your” letters. Normally I would ignore this kind of stupidity from the
Innovation: Boon or Diasater
Ask anyone with any sense of values; what is the biggest problem facing our country right now and they’ll tell you it’s jobs or the lack thereof. You can wail about crooked banks, taxes, the deficit, the pentagon budget or
Sins of the Left
In the last year and a half I have been accused of being a liberal, a socialist, even a communist, mostly by people who don’t know what communism is about . These accusations, however, may have had some basis because in looking
Bits & Pieces #23
Quote of the month from Mat Taibi: “Romney can’t even be mean with any honesty. Even when he’s pandering to viciousness, ignorance and racism, it comes out like scaly calculation.” *** People keep asking me why I started writing this blog and
Now We Got It, How Do We Fix It?
Well, the Court ruled and now everyone has to live with it, everyone except the Teabaggers and the far right. They’re still, hanging onto their anger, jumping up and down, whining like spoiled little brats and trying for the 33rd time to
Separate the Banks
As everyone knows who reads this blog, I have never held back on attacks against Jamie Dimon, head of JPMorgan Chase. In truth I have been very vocal in my condemnation of him and his compatriots as major causes of the funk
Nuclear Damage
I have always been one of the most ardent backers of nuclear energy. I was one of the many to point out that the entire human damage done throughout the world by Chernobyl from the time of the accident, until now, did
Entrapment?- Really?
I am as much against many of the new and proposed laws controlling our freedom of speech and movement as any one else on the planet but I am also against what has become the newest defense of various terrorists, nut cases
What’s Up With Religion?
For thousands of years, religions have formed around the concept that man needs someone to blame his problems on, and the convenient answer to that quest has always been called God. Of course if man was going to blame God for all