Like most Americans, I suspect, I’ve been riveted by the PBS 7-part series on WWII, told from the ground up (by the real people who experienced it) , and with benefit of newly unearthed contemporaneous video footage (some in color) & stills. It’s been nothing short of astounding, in my opinion.
I fervently [...]

Seems that attack ads by Republicans ~ in the Virginia state legislature, at least ~ have descended to what the Washington Post calls a “new low.”
Republican state legislator Timothy D. Hugo has launched an attack ad on his Democratic opponent with a twist: quoting comments to a blog by someone writing under a pseudonym [...]

Ill: The Worried Shrimp
~ Just when Democrats think it’s safe to entertain ideas of true bipartisanship during the tenure of the Bush Administration ~
If you thought the matter of Bush’s nominee to take Alberto Gonzales’s position at Justice was the big news of the past few days ~ wait! There’s more!
No sooner than [...]

I imagine your Demon isn’t the only one out here in American TV-land who is suffering from a mighty boob-tube cathode-ray hangover today after watching C-Span coverage of General Petraeus & Ambassador Ryan Crocker on how “well” *ahem* the surge is working. I, too, gorged on the feast of ink sprayed over the topic [...]

Ill: The Worried Shrimp
The Bush Plan: Wreck-A-Country, Then Reconstruct It (Badly)
~ So we’ll have to be there forever ~
It continues to boggle your Demon’s mind that Bush gets away with all he does in the prosecution of a misguided & illegitimate war. (Leaving aside, for the moment, that Cheney is in [...]

Your Demon had the great fortune to live in New Orleans for several years pre-hurricane, so the way that a great & wholly unique American city was allowed to disintegrate right before our very eyes is a continuing outrage, & a personal one, to me. It was, to me, a magic place, a [...]

“Where the truth lies” ~America’s Troubled Relationship with Advertising & Spin ~
Your Demon has recently become captivated the new AMC TV series Mad Men, & although I’ve only managed to catch two episodes, the most recent quite by accident (not being one to internalize TV schedules, since I rarely watch), this series hooked me [...]

Is it me, or is the Bushco Tyrannical Formulation of the American Presidency getting more & more extreme with each passing day, & closer to the time when it will play itself out altogether (or so it is fervently hoped)? Especially in his utter disrespect for Congress (see FISA Act revisions of late), & now, [...]

By now everyone knows that a criminal court in Miami (Broward County, specifically, from which all the jurors were likely to be drawn), convicted Jose Padilla & 3 others of conspiracy to do all sorts of awful things.
Things that never actually happened, by the way.
Bush & Alberto Gonzales, especially (who took time out from [...]

The evil boy genius, Bush’s beloved Turdblossom, “the Architect” of the country’s dark descent into unwarranted militarism, accompanied by a calculated pull to the hard right in every facet of American life, manipulation, & flirtation with neo-con fascism, announced his resignation from public life today. Needs more time with the family.
(He has a family? News [...]

The U.S. market meltdown of the past few days has made other world economies nervous-nervous enough to dump a ton of cash into ours. The EU & Japan joined our own Federal Reserve in the injections, & dwarfed ours.
The New York Times asked yesterday, “Should the Federal Reserve help bail out billionaire hedge [...]

Chinese Officials Order Living Buddhas to Get Permission Before Reincarnating
Funny, that is, if not for the fact that it’s so wrong on so many levels.
Actually, the point seems to be to prevent Tibetans from identifying their future spiritual leaders. Apparently that means making a great show of “legalistic” enactments which the dictator righteously follows through [...]

The Associated Press reported this afternoon that Democrats were successfully strong-armed by Bush’s threat to veto a compromise that would have had Bushco’s monarchial supersecret spying powers damped by the requirement that he submit requests to the FISA court well  after spying actually commenced.
 Makes this Demon ill to have to post about it.   Manipulated & thoroughly [...]

The boy-cries-wolf meme should have reached terminal exhaustion & death where Bushco is concerned, & especially regarding justification for secret spying programs, but we see in the news today where Democrats are still terrified of being tarred & feathered with the “soft on terrorism” brush ~ so much so that the very Democratic Congresspeople, [...]

Bad Karma Plagues Political Figures’ Summer Recesses Edition
Justice Roberts has a seizure:  Roberts slipped & fell on his dock at his summer home in Maine after suffering a seizure of unknown etiology. The youngest, & certainly handsomest, Chief Justice of the U.S. of A has no known history of health problems otherwise (though the Supreme [...]