Black 47 (Last One To Die) Bloody, fucking Ulster . Fucking, bloody Baghdad. Where next? One isn't really our problem, yet; one is still our problem. But, there is a relation between violence, sectarian hatred and money. Last night, the entrance to the Massereene army base in Antrim, 16 miles n...

Paul Krugman, Martin Wolff and even Ben Freaking Stein (Half-time brilliant, half-time Bozo) have all weighed in on the stimulus package as not being audacious enough. Well, this is why they are probably right ... The nation is losing jobs so quickly that the government, racing to deal with the cris...

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...

I dislike Rap. Hell, I hate it. I don't get it, and my Paddyass white brain doesn't find it musically or intellectually interesting. In this, I am sure I resemble my father trying to get his head around Bob Dylan and not getting it. That said, I accept that I am an old white guy and I don't like con...

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 don't know how to get that into a blog, but "JesusFuckingChrist, what the fuck is happening here?" Senator Lindsay-whining about the stimulus-Graham has come out in favor of nationalizing the banking system... As Maxine Waters said, "We have come a long way ."  Oh, an...

Chinese Job Fair...or firedrill? "Got a letter in the mail, join the Army or go to jail..." Crusader AXE is actually proud of this one. Historically, lots of immigrants went from boat to recruiting desk. Steve Earle in his brief collaboration with the Del McCoury  Band produced "Dixieland," whi...

I occasionally visit the Southern Poverty Law Center's blogsite because they do an excellent job of tracking the nutcases. There, I happened on this gem...David Duke, aka Dippest Shit in Louisiana, is now contending that he's an artist. Well, as SPLC's editor points out, not quite. He ta...