Monthly Archives: May 2010

Because, you know, my government never lies to me, and the Pentagon always tells the truth, and Jake Tapper always writes whatever they tell him to write. Continue reading →

There is a difference between real music and technically accomplished noise. Children and animals can tell what it is but very few human adults can… Continue reading →

But no one ever remembers that “Battle of the bands” is a marketing technique dreamed up by bar owners to benefit the bar’s cash intake, and not a natural musicians’ preferred means of interaction. Musicians socialize by doing “jam” sessions Continue reading →

Pot, meet Kettle; Kettle, this is Pot. Continue reading →

We Americans are so used to viewing everything through a racial lens (and, in the East, through an exclusively Black and White lens — although the haters are beginning to pick up Hispanics on their radar as the “Ni**ers of the Twenty First Century” replete with the slurs, the insistence that they “speak English,” the attempt to redline the entire USA via, evidently, a fence — and, thus, we only see Rand Paul as a “racist.” Continue reading →

So. Guess which fifty percent of Americans didn’t pay any income taxes? Continue reading →

But I wish [Lyn Nofziger] were still alive so that I could ask him about this statement on his site of his core belief: “I am a Republican because I believe that freedom is more important than government-provided security.” Continue reading →

Ansel Adams: Japanese farm workers at Manzanar Relocation Center, 1943 Have returned from California desert.

But no one in California seems willing to admit that the anti-democratic madness of Prop 13 has destroyed their state, just as Ronald Reagan destroyed the best public education system in America. They would rather live with their conforting fiction of a “tax revolt” that fix an utterly broken and bankrupt state…. Continue reading →

Breyer understands that symbolism is important. Moreover, there may well be an authentic “metaphoric” nature embedded within existence. Certainly, symbols have been and remain abstractions that humans will willing die to defend or protect. The American flag, for instance. Or, to Muslims, images of the Prophet. It is unwise to discount symbols…. Continue reading →

I am mysteriously absent on hush-hush business. But help yourself to some free wallpaper. Just click on the image above. Continue reading →