Category Archives: Politics

Feeling Better

By hugh | Published: January 13, 2010

It’s nice to be over it more or less especially since I never meant to turn this blog into a mere status report (see Twitter). A couple things: The Wall Street Journal is actually making good sense. All of the endless posturing, fear-mongering, and overspending on the War on Terror™ has got to stop if [...]

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The Skimmer Industries

By hugh | Published: January 5, 2010

This stuff is important. We’re still giving money away to people who don’t really make anything except money: finance and health insurance. I’m not seeing much support for small businesses and Main Street.

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A Year of More BS

By hugh | Published: January 4, 2010

Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse put together a sobering top ten of things to watch for in 2010. One jerk makes going to the airport that much worse for millions of people and forces the U.S. to open another propaganda-plus (more foreign aid and saber-rattling) front in Yemen. I am bewildered at the machinations of [...]

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Crack Door

By hugh | Published: December 19, 2009

I got sucker-punched on 106th Street some years back. Nothing major until now. Random violence in your neighborhood makes you wonder who your friends are. This is the sort of thing that makes wingnuts such assholes. They would just say I’m a hippie living in an urban hellhole.

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Thanksgiving Jozz

By hugh | Published: November 28, 2009

I am thankful for a year of mostly no work and having a lot of time to think and read and watch movies, but now I really need some work. My health is great thanks to a mostly vegan diet. I very much enjoyed the PeTA ad that got rejected by NBC. The heavy-handedness is [...]

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Sunday Blabfest

By hugh | Published: November 22, 2009

I have luggage that needs to be sorted and I don’t mean I took a trip. I was disappointed that Bill Moyers is retiring before Oprah. If you want a great talking heads fest with Bill, check out this web exclusive with Glenn Greenwald. Find out why I’m disillusioned with Barack Obama and politics in [...]

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Huffington Post Censors Itself

By hugh | Published: October 14, 2009

I don’t have the screen shot but for a little while yesterday afternoon, the Huffington Post lead story was “PEACE PRIZE?” and linked to a story at the Washington Post about how Obama already secretly sent 13,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. I went to look for the Huffpo story again and it’s gone. The WaPo [...]

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War = Peace, Failure = Success, Taxpayer = Treasury

By hugh | Published: October 13, 2009

The conservatives essentially say that the Nobel Peace Prize was given to a man who has done nothing to deserve it and they’re far less than half-right. The part they were right about was lampooned on SNL a little over a week ago. The Nobel Prize committee says Barack Obama has created “a new climate [...]

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Foreign Affairs Terms in the Media

By hugh | Published: September 28, 2009

Glennzilla breaks it down for us.

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Quitters Stick With It. Winners Quit.

By hugh | Published: July 3, 2009

Via TPM, that’s the take-away from Sarah Palin’s speech. On twitter, Ezra Klein advises ambitious bloggers to comb through the speech for other internal contradictions. The headline says it all for me and I hope we’re done with this hack. John McCain was an idiot for putting her on the national stage. After the jump, [...]

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Tunneling and Landscaping

By hugh | Published: June 8, 2009

One thing about tunnels is that to see the light at the end of them, you have to build them before you get to experience the darkness and wonder about the light at the end. If it’s a pedestrian tunnel as part of a bridge and landscaping project, it was an afterthought and there was [...]

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Table of Junk

By hugh | Published: May 11, 2009

Steve Rattner, one of the new puppet masters Ecuador election results continue leftward tilt in South America. Obama administration quietly seeking extraordinary military power in Pakistan. Messing with the polls and other tricks to manufacture consent to Israeli apartheid Line between espionage and lobbying further blurred in recent acquittal. Richardson and Roubini: We can’t subsidize [...]

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