Let Me Tell You What I Really Think
There
was a bumper sticker that I saw a lot during my teens, that read:
America: Change It Or Lose It. It provided the spirited
counterpoint to the even more prevalent bumper sticker reading: America:
Love It Or Leave It. In my experience, the former showed
up on a lot of Volkswagen Microbuses while the latter adorned Lincolns
and Oldsmobiles. |
Any
slogan succinct enough to fit on a bumper sticker is a tragically
oversimplified sound bite for a much more complex issue. It is apparent
that too many Americans don't seem to be able—or willing—to
take the time to think about the complexities of modern life. Continued
non-thinking will have tragic results, because Hell isn't
somewhere we go, it is something we make. |
It’s
time for concern. No one seems to understand that there are
no easy answers. Simple solutions to complex problems simply
spawn greater problems. Here is a look at the disturbing trends that
have me concerned, as well as my thoughts and how I deal with life
and the world in general. Welcome to my coping mechanisms. (The most
current essays are at the top.) |
Number of American
Military Who Have Died In Iraq For the
Bush Imperial Presidency:
3886 (12-05-07)
CNN
Report: U.S. and Coalition Casualties
American
and Coalition Casualty Count at Antiwar.com
NIE on Iran vs Bush Administration
W Needs to Read The Art of War, Part 2
W Needs to Read The Art of War, Intro and Part 1
Sudan: Land of Bloodthirsty Religious Fanatics
Stabilizing the Middle East—Not
Criminal Complicity By State Department
False FEMA Press Conference: A Natural Consequence
Republican Contract With America
Stephen Colbert: Great American Hero
Candace Chronicles: The End of the Line
"My Year in Iraq"—Third Time's The Charm
Reading More of "My Year in Iraq"
President Authorized to Break the Law?
Whittington: "Thank You Sir! May I Have Another?"
How Vice Presidents Practice For Invading The Wrong Countries
Remember This Bush Lie About the CIA Leak?
Heralding the End of the World
So Only Christians Can Drive in Alabama
Custodians of the Public Trust
The President Lies in a Concilatory Manner
First CIA Leak Case Gets More Interesting
Lies, Damned Lies, and Bush Administration Press Conferences
Rumsfeld Joins Bush in Iraq Lie-Fest '05
Bush Lies and Misleads Troops in Alaska
Florida PTA Advocates Tasering Students
Bill O'Reilly Helping Terrorists Pick US Targets
Iraq War History Revisionism Redux
The “Debate” on Intelligent Design
Pat Robertson Invokes the Wrath of God
Republicans Worried About Being Caught Lying. Again.
Kansas Seeks To Lower National IQ. Again.
“We Do Not Torture,” Lied the President
Bush's America Has No Credibility in Latin America
FBI Abusing Patriot Act —Again
Bush Administration Credibility
Framing the (Pro) Choice Question
Wal-Mart Employees Are Secret Police Informants
Harriet Miers, Stealth Nominee
Mohamed El Baradei, Nobel Prize Winner
White House Staffers Lied! I'm Shocked!
Parking Ticket Higher Education
How Stupid Are Abstinence-Only Advocates?
In Defense of Racism in Florida
More “Intelligent” Design Lies
DeLay's "Religious Conviction"?
Candace Chronicles: The Evils of Alcohol
Candace Chronicles: Relationship Roller Coaster
Florida Legitimizes Vigilantes
Tales of Everyday Life: Not An Entrepreneur
In His Own Words: Bush Supports Privacy—For Himself
Tales of Everyday Life: Saline vs Silicon
President Bush Tells The Truth
Schaivo Political Memo Author Revealed
Thoughts on the Ten Commandments, Part 4
Thoughts on the Ten Commandments, Part 3
Thoughts on the Ten Commandments, Part 2
Thoughts on the Ten Commandments, Part 1
Tales of Everyday Life: TV Commercials
What ELSE Governor Jeb Bush Isn't Telling You
What Governor Jeb Bush Isn't Telling You
Clueless Republican Legislator
Does EVERYONE in the Bush Administration Lie?
God Bless You, James Whittemore
Latest Baldfaced Bush Lie: “In Favor of Life”
More Republican Abuse of Power
Tales of Everyday Life: Why I Hate Being Sick
Tales of Everyday Life: Kourtney's Website
How the Bush Administration Continues to Shred the Constitution
Tales of Everyday Life: Going Hands-Free
What's Obvious About the Bush Social Security Plan, Part 2
What's Obvious About the Bush Social Security Plan, Part 1
Presidential Inauguration: Leave Your Rights At Home
Innovative Abu Ghraib Defense Strategy
Americans Can't HANDLE The Truth!
Bush Police State to Shut Down GPS
Church Advertisement Banned From CBS, NBC
Bush's Sex Education: Ignorance On Parade
Another Example of Republican "Morality"
Condoleezza Rice New Secretary of State
Bush to 48% of America: Bend Over
Wal-Mart: 20 Years Late for 1984
Florida Election Officials Violate First Amendment
Vote Against Bush Reason #6 (He Deceives)
In His Own Words: Bush Says Kerry Jumps to Conclusions
George W. Not the Only Incompetent Bush
Vote Against Bush Reason #5 (He's Secretive)
Vote Against Bush Reason #4 (He's Ineffective)
LOST: 380 Tons of High Explosives
Vote Against Bush Reason #3 (Unsafe World)
Vote Against Bush Reason #2 (Record Deficit)
Vote Against Bush Reason #1 (He's a Divider)
Dick Cheney Lies, Gets Standing Ovation
No Law Against Politicians Lying
DOJ Allows CIA to Violate 4th Geneva Convention
The American Mis-Election 2004
Sinclair Broadcast Co. and the FEC
Iraq: Winning Battles, Losing War?
Wal-Mart: Retailer for the Evil Empire
No Freedom of Speech for the Military
Bush Accuses Kerry of “Scaring” Voters
How Much Are YOU Paying For Gas?
Bush/Cheney Openly Oppose Civil Liberties
In His Own Words: Bush Doesn't Think About Osama bin Laden
Bill O'Reilly's Pre-Emptive Strike
FCC Demonstrates Ineptitude, Ignorance
Flu
Fears? Pay Up or Die
How Conservatives Think
The Empire Strikes Back
Bush Definition of "Democratic"
Elections
Iraq: A Bad Place to
Get Married
Charles Duelfer on the Elusive
WMDs
Cheney Lies Some More
Cheney Lies About Iraq
Again
Elusive Education Facts
In His Own Words: Bush
Lies About "Kerry Doctrine"
Why I Hate TV
Creepy Burger King
Voter Non-Registration
Iraq is a "Spritual"
War
Anatomy of Misinformation
In His Own Words: How
Not to Ask for Help
People Are Strange
"Final" Resolution
on Iraq WMDs
Saddam Still in Iraq and
1,000 American Soldiers Still Alive?
In His Own Words: Bush
Claims John Kerry Will Expand Government (Gasp)
About My Job
More Bush ANG Revelations
Sleazy Scare Tactics From
the Sleazy VP
More Spin on Bush ANG Duty
In His Own Words: Saddam
Hussein and 9-11
President Calls For End
to Administration Criticism
Kerry's Vietnam Service:
The Big Picture
Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth
Setback for Gay Marriage
Keystone Kops On Terrorism
Blood Lust Still Unsated
Lying Partisan Vietnam
Vets For Bush
Shady Administration
Dealings in Iraq
Old Information Incites
New Panic
Unconscionable USA PATRIOT
Act Abuse
Saudis Don't Like Michael
Moore
Conform or Pay the
Price
They'll Be Coming For
YOU Next
Metrorail Nazis On The
Job
David Kay on the Elusive WMDs
I Saw Fahrenheit 9/11
in Crawford Texas
Bush Lies About Cuba, Only
LA Times Notices
Registered Traveler Program
Wal-Mart vs Costco
Republicans for Nader's Candidacy
Fahrenheit 9/11
The Party of Lincoln?
Chicken Little Commission
Releases 9/11 Report
The Sound of Bush Flip-Flopping
Halliburton - Hand in
the Cookie Jar?
Life Imitates Art Imitating
Life
Protesting Freedom
of Speech
AP & CNN Save World by Revealing
Sci-Fi Lie
Greedy Capitalists Defend Coercive
US HIV Policies
Republicans Move to Disenfranchise
Non-Republican Voters
World Protests Coercive US HIV
Policies
British Inquiry Defends Its
Superior False Intelligence
President Fingers Nose at NAACP
In His Own Words: Demonizing
the Enemy
In His Own Words: Bush
Elevates Definitions Over People
Iraq Intelligence Cover-Up
Continues
No New Stupid Amendments
This Year
Poll Respondents Are So
Dumb
Do YOU Feel Safer From
Terrorists Today?
Who Tailored the Iraq
Intelligence?
Scapegoating the CIA
Legalizing Extortion
A Collision of Bush Administration
Lies
Defining Torture
The Power of The Big Lie
Southern Baptists Further the
Cause of Hatred and Prejudice
Iraq Rebuffed bin Laden
and al-Qaeda
It's Okay for America to
Torture People!
Ronald Reagan Dead at 93
Cheap Gasoline A Reality—in
Iraq
Chad Kroger: Selfish, Rich
and Ignorant
Candace Chronicles: Season
Finale
Bush, the Supreme Uniter
Al Gore Telling It Like
It Is
Tenet: Sacrificial Lamb or
the First Domino?
Cheney Caught Red-Handed
Candace Chronicles: The
Sizing of the Watch
Covering Up New Torture
in Iraq
Candace Chronicles: Tale
of the Tire, Part 2
Breaking the Rules of the
Geneva Convention
Bush Backs Rumsfeld Wrongdoing
Blame the Right People for
Abu Ghraib!
Is Rumsfeld Advocating a
Cover-Up?
More Pictures and Videos
to Come
Campaign to Outlaw Sex
NOT the "Honorable
People"
Abu Ghraib: Under New
Management
Candace Chronicles: Tale
of the Tire
The Consequence of Secrecy
Iraq War Gets More Personal
Most Americans Now Think
Iraq War Was a Mistake
The President is Afraid of
the Truth
Blatant Appearance of
Impropriety
Massachusetts' Discriminatory
Out-of-State Marriage Ban
The Power of Hate
Hypocritical Bush Supporters
Question Purple Heart
"Bin Laden Determined
to Strike Inside the U.S."
Iraq War Gets Personal
The One Tree: A Parable
Conservative Values Have
No Role in Education
Printer Scam
Condom Warning Labels
Heaven and Hell
How Legislators Waste Time
and Money
What Is Condoleezza Rice
Hiding?
The Truth Is Leaking Out
How News Reporting Should
Be
The Way Greed Works
Henry Hyde Misspeaks Out
Tommy Thompson: Paying Attention
to Medicare is Not My Job
Turnabout Isn't Fair Play?
Spain Shows Its Backbone
Another Iraq Reality
Check
Fair Trial vs Unhealthy
Secrecy
Bush Campaign Ads Backlash
Fundamentalist Christian
Fanatics Win Again
A Coup in Haiti?
A Gay Brouhaha
Trolling for Trash
Bush Revisionism
Secret Satellite Imagery
Because It's A Lie!
Not So Humanitarian
Cheney Lies to Italians
Lack of Intelligence
More Iraq Spin From Dick
Cheney
STD Misinformation Starts
Here
Unfair and Completely Unbalanced
O'Neill Target of Punitive
Politics
(More) Shameless Grandstanding
No More Lies From the President
US Senators Avoid Accountability
“ Pro-Life”
Liars
Latest Phone Company Scam
Living in Misery
Columbo Not Needed
This is a True Story
Life: Journey or Destination?
Dubya Discredited for Nixing
Blix
Ask O.J.
Renault in Casablanca or
Bush in the White House?
White House Endangers National
Security
Rice Lies on Fox TV. No
One Notices.
Death Penalty Proposition
President Lies To Congress—In
Print
Remember “The People”?
September 11th Observances
Official Lies
Miserable Failures
Terrorist Murderer Put To
Death
Things to Come
Off My Chest
Giving Christians A
Bad Name
Above the Law
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
Judicious or Ludicrous?
Tyrants on Parade
Lies the President Told Us
Bush Speaks Out in Support
of Bigotry
Vatican Pot Calls Kettle
Black
Betting on Death
The Everlasting War
Coalition of the Willing
Sit, Boy. Sit. Now Roll
Over.
Movie Piracy
Traitors Reveal Covert CIA
Operative To Our Nation's Enemies
Keep America Safe: Send More
Nuns To Prison!
Handicapping Head Start
Global Warming?
Election 2000: Keep
Asking the Embarrassing Questions
Bullshit Alert!
More Dirty Tricks
Wrong Place, Wrong Time,
Wrong Man
Implausible Deniability
Legislative Irony: USA
Patriot Act
It's (Still) All Clinton's
Fault
Outlawing Freedom of Speech
A Nation of the Moneyed, By
the Moneyed, and For the Moneyed
President Rolls Out
Smoke, Mirrors
President Lies To American
People—Again
147 Die For Bush Re-Election
Campaign
Subversives in Charge
State of the Union Lies:
Six Months Later
Three Strikes
Irresponsibility in
the Highest Offices
No Doubt in His
Mind
President Lies To American
People
Islamic “Camp Terror”
Plan Raises Hackles
Citizens Against Hate
A Sacrifice He's Willing
To Make
Open Letter to Tipper
Gore
Death to the RIAA!
Another Less Racist
Supreme Court Injustices
One Less Racist
Apocalypse, Anyone?
Recidivism Indicts “Justice”
Iraq and the American Sheep
Museum Looting Bodes Well
For Capitalism
“New World Plan”:
Point/Counterpoint
SAPS Epidemic Sweeps The Nation
“Who's Smarter?”:
Point/Counterpoint
“10 Good Points”:
Point/Counterpoint
Blackmail: Republican Democracy
at Work
War Mania
NATO Has Finally Met Its Match
Shameless Propaganda, ONDCP
Style
BC From Hell
Church & State Email:
Point/Counterpoint
Sex is Bad
Peacemakers and Warmongers
What Christian Backlash?
Newspeak, ONDCP Style
Who's the Rogue State?
The CEO: A Handbook For The
Successful Chief Executive Officer
Die By The Sword
American Citizens Deserve
Better Than The Lowest Bidder
Shackling the Sinners in
Santa Fe, Texas
A Government of Liars
Legalizing Torture in America
If I Had A Hammer
Eye For An Eye
Reaping What Congress Sows
The Wrong Kind of Privacy
Double Standard Redux
Fox in the Henhouse
Travel Tips For Mexicans
Because The Light Is Better
The Lone Ranger Was Not
A Bully
UNC vs Ignorance, Intolerance,
and Indoctrination
Another Reason Why Christian
is a Bad Word
Media-Government Shenanigans
Oh, Take Responsibility
For Your Own Life!
The Woodlands Sep 11 Memorial
Flap
The Double Standard Lives!
The
Pledge of Allegiance
Safeguarding the Crucifix®
Minority Report
This Is Your Captain, Gunslinger Bob,
Speaking....
Boondocks and BC
Their Lips Are Moving
Don't Tell Us What, Tell Us How
Undermining Roe v Wade
Business Success: A New Paradigm
The Devil Made Them Do It
Where Are The Heroes?
Repeal the 19th Amendment
Liberty and Security
Next Stop: Police State?
To Be An American
Dangerous Pictures!
Praygrounds
How To Steal An Election
Sinister Stirrings in Santa Fe, Texas
The Activist Christian Counter-Offensive
High Speed Internet Reality Check
School Prayer in Santa Fe, Texas: The
Sequel
School Prayer in Santa Fe, Texas
Even I Have A Spiritual Side
Making Waves
People Who Tear Down Crosses
Who Do You Respect?
Prison is the Answer: An Update
Lessons of Littleton, CO
Words to Live By: My Rules of Life
Why is Christian a Bad Word?
Freedom of Religion
Consensual Crimes
Hatred Rules!
Save the (Precious) Animals!
JonBenet Ramsey: Who Are These Sick People?
Public Safety or Fattened Coffers?
A Police State In The Making, Part 2
A Police State In The Making
Prison Is The Answer!