When it made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region, Hurricane Helene was a Category 4 and four hundred and twenty miles across. The storm surges ranged between eight and fifteen feet, lifting boats and mobile homes from their docks and trailer parks, depositing them hundreds of yards away across the torn and battered landscape. But… Continue reading Moron Lunatic Knucklehead on Steroids
Useful Idiots’ Delight
We denizens of the Washington DC metropolitan area who work inside the Beltway know quite well who Dick Cheney is. Most people in the United States, however, have at best a hazy idea of him. And certainly, there is no particular reason why the international readers of this Web log, who are legion, would know… Continue reading Useful Idiots’ Delight
Hillbilly Soliloquy
Since my last post, for the first time since World War II, Russia was invaded. Inexperienced and unwilling Russian conscripts threw down their weapons and readily surrendered as battle-hardened Ukrainian troops took ground in the western Kursk region, maneuvering behind the Russian artillery, missile and rocket resources that Putin had been using to attack “strategic… Continue reading Hillbilly Soliloquy
MAGA Think Tank Spills Wannabe Dictator’s Beans
Ninety-seven days before what very well may be the last free election held in the United States of America, the public reaction to the departure of Joseph Biden from the presidential race highlights just how disenchanted the Democratic voter base was with him. When he announced his withdrawal and subsequently more or less anointed Kamala… Continue reading MAGA Think Tank Spills Wannabe Dictator’s Beans
A Fable for Our Time
Long, long ago, in the days of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, there was a storybook neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia, called Dominion Hills. It was a prosperous place – quiet, middle class, very respectable and lily white. The people who lived there all either worked for the one of the many federal government agencies, served in… Continue reading A Fable for Our Time