As I was doing a variety of things yesterday -- busy day on the chain gang. I particularly enjoyed the idiot gate guard bringing his girlfriend into the guard shack of the secure area which is behind the fence -- I was reflecting on the drive home listening to Handsome Dick Manitoba on Little Steven...

I really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way...

Crusader AXE is struggling with "Administrative publications," that is, the policies and procedures and forms used by Ginormous Defense Contractor to manage the complexity of the business. They post the stuff on the Intranet, which is wonderful, keeping the competitors from stealing our cr...

In the days of my youth, I spent some time in Panama and Latin America. I participated as a staff NCO and briefer on a mission called Operation BlastFurnance, where the US Army, the Bolivian Army, the DEA and associated other folks went after the Cocaine Industry in the jungles of Bolivia. Total clu...

One of the Hobbit tricks that enrages Crusader AXE is their almost orgasmic delight in applying simple solutions to complex problems. While the Bush administration, the Neo-cons, and the Republican party in general have been world class in simple solutions that don't work, I have no reason to be...

Almost 40 years ago, Marxist-AXE was arguing with Daddy-AXE. The old man was a very senior middle-manager and engineer for another GINORMOUS DEFENSE CONTRACTOR -- I would say that he was at the highest position in a manufacturing position where you actually were involved in making something. Anyway,...

Well, it was just a matter of time before some Democrats were convicted of acting like Tom DeLay, Dick Cheney and the Captain in Casablanca...kind of hard to rail against the prosecutor in the Blago case, since the left anointed him in Scooter Dooter debacle; as for the Jefferson case, come on. I re...

I continue to be amazed at things that this administration does that do not amaze me. It's like watching a Three Stooges clip -- you know that Moe is going to poke them both in the eyes, and Curly is going to do the YUKYUKYUK--Indetubibily bit. But, they aren't even able to keep from subverting thei...

Remember all that nuttiness about the invasion of Iraq being to secure it's oil? Damn, the nuts were right! Getting rid of Saddam was just the cherry on top of the whipped cream. A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing up contracts between...

WASHINGTON, June 27 (Reuters) - The just-ended U.S. Supreme Court term gave President George W. Bush a historic victory on gun rights for Americans but handed him a bitter defeat on his war on terrorism policy regarding Guantanamo Bay prisoners. As those two landmark 5-4 rulings illustrated, the nat...