The Egg and I
This article by Gail Collins got me to thinking. Quick Aside: Gail Collins often gets me to thinking and chuckling and weeping upon occasion. Good stuff, that. Truth be told, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld frequently had the same effect upon me. But for significantly different reasons. Where was I? Oh...
No Regrets?
To the best of my knowledge, I’ve just entered the sixth decade of my existence. (I say it’s to the best of my knowledge because it’s all I recognize. Whether or not this is just one more episode of reincarnation, or my actual beginning, has no bearing on the topic of this article....
War And My Remembrance
These days, everyone with a modicum of brains or a semi-operational moral compass seems to be contemplating their erstwhile support of or opposition to the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld Wars. Notable exceptions exist, most conspicuously Messrs. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, (not to mention their inner circle of counselors, stooges and court jesters), but honestly, no one should...
In Case You Were Wondering
— March, 2013 – I stumbled across this post from October, 2008, as I was going through the archives. It provides a brief explanation, for anyone with interest, why I started writing about all this political stuff — A thought occurred to me this morning. It’s entirely plausible I’ve given some the...
Princesses
Long ago, in a far away Disney board room . . . The high-strung junior executive slipped and nearly fell as he scooted around the hallway corner and burst through the heavy oak doors into the room. “SIR, SIR!” he exclaimed as he waved a sheet of paper above his head. “THEY DID IT!...
Torture, A Continuing Discussion Pt. 3
Laws do not stand in judgment of morality. Quite the opposite is true. And laws either promote commonly accepted moral virtues, (i.e. benevolence, compassion, charity, forbearance, selflessness, love, etc.), or they abet the cleaving of those virtues from society. Our nation’s turn to torture, thanks to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza...
Torture, A Continuing Discussion Pt. 2
As Andrew Sullivan says, Kathryn Bigelow (Director of Zero Dark Thirty) is NOT a torture apologist. I agree with everything he says. (I’m anticipating viewing the movie, but with trepidation.) And I second Sullivan’s call for a Bush/Cheney investigation and obvious, subsequent prosecution for war crimes, crimes against humanity and treason. War criminals did...
Torture, A Continuing Discussion Pt. 1
Our Lack Of Choice With the release of the movie, Zero Dark Thirty, the gut-wrenching topic of torture has been re-introduced to the nation’s common discourse. In the years since George Bush and Dick Cheney unleashed the dogs of war upon the world, we, America’s citizens, have been denied the damnable but needful conversation...
