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...

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...

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 ...

Well, if he decides to come out in full Nazi regalia doing Spring Time for Hitler at the Inauguration, that would be kind of cool...and probably very scarey. With more than a hint of admiration in his voice, pastor Warren described how in 1939 in a packed Munich Stadium before the leader of the Thir...

About a year ago, I was spending lots of time in a room with a bunch of my closest friends, the negotiating team from Ginormous Defense and our counterparts across the room, the Teamsters local, who in some cases are people I regard as friends. Anyway, the union honcho and I were talking about polit...