Got the "Slow News Cycle" Blues?

No worries … college football starts tonight!!! Unlike last year where everybody knew from beginning to end it would come down to Texas and USC, this year college football is loaded with contenders for the title. Here is SI’s Preseason Power Rankings. It’s hard to argue with Ohio State...

Blackwater Mercenaries

Apologies to The Doobie Brothers… Blackwater Security may have a little trouble.Iraq For Sale…just like the New New Orleans?Blackwater and other Mercenaries are Big Business political, political cartoons, cartoons, Bush, Terrorism, Homeland Security, War on Terror, Blackwater, Doobie...

John Lee Hooker: Tupelo, Mississippi

A relatively recent version of this song that John played for many years. The more things change, the more things stay the...

Iraq Security Statements

The chief of Baghdad’s police stated that Baghdad should have security in twelve to eigtheen months….. Gen. Casey, commander of US forces in Iraq, believes that Iraqi forces, with minimal US support can take over security throughout the entire country in the next twelve to eighteen months. So it...

Their Lies Were Mocking God

I heard a piece on NPR yesterday about the contracting and sub-contracting of debris removal in the aftermath of Katrina. I don’t remember the exact number, but there was about 7 or 8 levels of subcontracting. The initial bid got $23 a cubic yard, and by the time it got down to the last level of...