It was a very pretty speech that Barack Obama gave tonight. There was some substance that was very important and welcome. However, while everyone is celebrating and feeling rosy about change and hope again, I want to take note of some things that weren’t in the Obama’s speech: - Barack O...

It’s habeas corpus test time for Barack Obama. Does he recognize the validity of the ancient writ or not? A right-leaning court has sided with the years-long detention-without-charge of non-enemy non-combatants. 17 Uighurs, captured as part of George W. Bush’s dragnet, and later determin...

He’s the cutest little tabby cat of a kitten with his soft orange fur and big blue eyes, and tiny little paw, and a round fuzzy body that makes you just want to cuddle and tickle and hug him and squeeze him… and he’s asking: Will you please now pay attention to the fact that Presid...

Heads up, America, it’s Tim the Talking Toilet here with the news that you probably missed because it came out the day after the Obama inauguration, upon which almost everyone in America was just sitting around in a kind of daze - like the kind that you get when you wake up from a nightmare an...

The controversy over the plan to have right wing preacher Rick Warren give an official religious invocation to introduce Barack Obama’s Inauguration just grew another kink. It seems that Rick Warren’s church, the Saddleback Church, is engaged in a coverup designed to hide Rick WarrenR...

It may be hard now, in the post-election, pre-inauguration time when Barack Obama has made his victory, but isn’t actually responsible for government, to remember the serious flaws in Obama’s campaign. You may not be in the mood to try to remember these things, feeling that it’s be...

I love San Francisco. I appreciate the activism of World Can’t Wait. Still, when I read news of a National Day of Protest against torture, and I’m only able to find information about a World Can’t Wait protest in San Francisco, I know that something has gone very wrong. What weR...

Why does the Four Points Sheraton in Chicago hate Christmas? The hotel is blatantly taking part in the commercial War Against Christmas that has brought the beloved holiday close to nearly under threat of a potential partial cancellation. Walk into the hotel and you will hear what I hear - the anti-...

If George Orwell had released the book 1984 in 2008, would anyone have bought it? Not if the general American reaction to the FISA Amendments Act is any indication. The FISA Amendments Act would have made the totalitarian government of Oceania nod in approval. They knew the value of omnipresent spyi...

I admit that we have been a little bit down in the mouth, bitter here at Irregular Times lately. How could we not be, what with the passage of the FISA Amendments Act, and Barack Obama jumping on the Homeland Insecurity bandwagon? Sigh. I’m glad that I ran into someone online who could show me...