Jaysus, Mary and Joseph, don't they look like prison guards, or cops? Funky Céilí One of my O'Blogo brothers sent me this plug and bit of insight from Helen Rittlemeyer of The Cigarette Smoking Blog and  thought my response needed to be posted. I'm interested in the book, since I remembe...

Mac the Knife has damnall on these bastards. You know, the Rio Bravo is wadeable down there, the fucking wall down is breachable with minimal amount of effort, and if the Narco-talibanistas decide to invade El Paso , the guns at Fort Bliss are locked in arms rooms and by the time Rick "Nice-haircut"...

The local furniture stores and car dealerships here at the Crossroads of Opportunity have signs up talking about spending your tax rebate here. Right. Good luck with that. I'll be able to buy some tire valve covers. There has been some back and forth at Defeatist central about the Stimulus...

The Catholic God, if the bastard exists, really doesn't deserve a lot of the people who have served him. Most of the time in this enlightened age, we focus on the bigoted dipshits, the deviants, the fanatics. But, every now and then, we need to face the fact that some people -- Mother Teresa, Ig...

Freedom of speech is not intended to protect Barrack Obama or Rachel Maddow or Oprah Winfrey or Rupert Murdoch. It protects the folks at the outer limit--the conspiracy theorist, the pornographer, the papparazzi: those who strain the fabric of the space time continuum of the conventional wisdom with...

Ok, as a general rule I do not think it's a great idea to send former presidents to the calaboose, unless their actions really rise to the level of high crimes. I think the old "unindicted, co-conspirator" dodge is fine for most stuff, because most stuff is probably driven by paranoia ...

I'm just a dumb ass Irish guy from upstate New York who had to join the Army to get his first pair of shoes but...Jesus fucking Christ, already!  There are times when I really wonder about the future of the human race as sentient beings. Now, doing the old Ciceronian praeteritio, I'm g...

It's cold in the high desert. Last night, it was about 50F when we left for dinner. Ok, that's not cold. But, this time of year, figure 40 knot winds, and you get the picture. It was bitter. I stopped for gas and sent the spouse in to get lottery tickets, as part of our early retirement plan. The se...

Well, the gift of bullshit that distinguishes the Irish has reached new heights. The opposition party has declared that the government's plan to toss another EU referendum on the table smacks of Mugabe. Really? Has the House of Guiness taken to putting acid in the lager and ...

I'm working tomorrow. Actually, I'm going to go in, take a class on export control that really doesn't have anything to do with me, and fiddle around with some stuff. May hang some new art in the office, possibly bring along a guitar and jam by myself, read crap. Dinner last night was breakfast at C...