THE SYRIAN PEOPLE – LOVED BUT NOT HEARD FROM

I have the occasional habit of speaking in parables and metaphors without explicitly stating what I want you to know. I won’t do that for this post about the expanding Syria civil war. This war is about damn-near everything else except for the will of Syrian people. This war is about […]

IS WAR WITH SYRIA GOOD NEWS FOR SOME?

While President Barack Obama thinks about helping the jihadists rebels beat Syria President Bashar al-Assad’s forces through military strikes, I keep thinking about this US military spending chart from the Washington post: How many conclusions did you reach? And besides this, what are the Russians really thinking? BTW, don’t worry […]

NYC’S EXPENSIVE PRISONER PRIORITIES

Here’s a crazy idea – let’s make an offer to New York City prisoners, save for the psycho killers, where we give them $167,000 each year under the condition that they stay out of trouble. Infractions can mean quadruple-life sentences or something. How many prisoners would jump at the offer and keep their word? I […]

EGYPT – SOMEBODY’S GETTING PLAYED

I talked about why the US will not completely cut off aid to Egypt’s junta despite its continued murder and imprisonment of political opponents, but what does the Egyptian military think about this? I’m not 100 percent sure, but there are some pieces of evidence that make me think we’ll soon find out and that […]

THIS IS BIGGER THAN SNOWDEN

If you still kick-off any NSA or British GCHQ spy conversation by debating whether Edward Snowden is a traitor or whistle-blower, you’re missing the big picture. Ordinary citizens like you and me, who have no intention of blowing up buildings or harming others, are being rounded up by a cross-continental electronic dragnet where – if […]

WHAT ABOUT THIS US-ARAB LOVE AFFAIR NOW?

While the new new Egyptian government revs up its murder machine and uses the Muslim Brotherhood and friends as fuel, President Obama has a profound bit of advice for Egypt’s ruling Junta: stop it. US Secretary of State John Kerry also shared his infinite wisdom on the killings: “It’s deplorable.” On this morning’s Face the […]

NSA TIME WARP, OR CONTINUUM?

I’m about to drop a few quotes about the National Security Agency on you that may not be surprising, but what I tell you after that could raise a question or two. First, a quote from the Washington Post about an NSA spy program: Has the NSA turned from eavesdropping on the communists to eavesdropping […]

IS FRIEDMAN TRIPPIN’?

The question is which drugs Thomas L. Friedman took before writing his Obama, Snowden and Putin article for the NY Times? The first piece of madness he wrote referenced President Obama’s surveillance reforms: Considering the breadth of reforms that President Obama is now proposing to prevent privacy abuses in intelligence gathering, in […]

THE DUCK WHO LAUNCHED A THOUSAND DISS TRACKS

(Laughing) Well, you KNOW by now that rapper Kendrick Lamar’s last name is Duckworth, right? I have to give the young man credit if his master plan was to make news headlines, get a rap mogul or two to acknowledge his presence, receive public counseling by a legendary NBA coach, piss-off the […]

OK, I’LL SAY IT – WE’VE BEEN (O)BAM(A)BOOZLED!

There were two things I tried to avoid doing out of respect for President Obama’s leadership when I posted about his so-called National Security Agency reforms yesterday – to use the term (O)bam(a)boozled despite my itchiness to do so, and to call these reforms BS. Perhaps I’m still being generous about the latter… […]