I don't normally look to the late night pop icons of court jester politics for insight or deep wisdom on national affairs (like about a quarter of the nation's youth), but, Jon Stewart's rendition of the last five years in Iraq was too close to home to pass up, I'm afraid. Notice how if we go backwards, Bush's policy makes sense, at least to him. This threads nicely with the last post here. We could laugh i ...

This says it all...VP DC in action. Commenting on American democracy and the theoretical role of the majority in public opinion on government policy, the VP, in disagreement with the current 64% majority of the public against the Iraq War, says, "So?" The public is just a meaningless, fickle obstacle. Unless the public is used (when manipulated by corporate media administration cheerleaders) to agree with o ...

So many things have happened in the past month or so, it's been hard to keep up. Not just on the home front with tenured apps, committee work, meetings, conference follow-ups (with an update soon at www.truthemergency.us), and the rest. But many other things have also been happening, say, with the primaries, the non-selection horse race that it is; record violence in Iraq and Gaza; a major industrial agro m ...