Category Observed

65th Anniversary of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Snowpocalypse Now: Redux

To abuse a cliche: After I got a full night’s sleep, it seemed like a bad dream. But another YouTube clip gone up overnight from my friend and past collaborator Robin Bell corroborates the reality of it all. Yesterday DC was hit with a snowstorm that we’re now told ranks higher than anything in 70 [...]

The rhetoric of escalation and Orwell

Obama’s own hypocrisy undercuts the alleged nobility of his Nobel acceptance speech, the purposeful blindness of some of those who are dismayed by it undercuts their dismay, and the constant creep of collective amnesia that allows for others support the escalation of war and the “logic” offered by Obama is Oslo undercuts our safety. Long [...]