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Quote Of The Day: Chickenhawk Edition
Have I mentioned how much I love Dan Rather recently? Here’s one reason why he’s my main man: My first question to anyone who is on television saying, “We have to get tough, we need to put boots on the...
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Malaka Of The Week: Peter King
I’m talking about the Congressman from Guyland, not the Monday Morning Quarterback guy. The former is the only one I want to take my first name back from. Peter King is one of the leading GOP neo-cons...
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Not Everything Sucks, Guys
In the midst of civil war, Syrians saved seeds: Even as the area around the genebank fell under the control of two competing armed groups and the remaining staff reckoned with several kidnappings,...
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Democrats Who Voted for SAFE Act are Cowards & Traitors
Once upon a time: What I want to know, what I want to know, is what in the world so many Democrats are doing supporting the President’s unilateral intervention in Iraq? What I want to know, is what in...
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A Fatal Lack Of Impulse Control
Until yesterday, Donald Trump was fine with Bashar al-Assad remaining in power. Rex Tillerson gave Assad a green light and the dictator took advantage of it by using chemical weapons on his own people....
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MOAB DICK
Call me Ishmael. Call me anything; just don’t call me late when supper’s ready. Last week’s astonishing series of Trump administration* foreign policy u-turns and flip flops convinced some in the MSM...
View ArticleWag The Dog Incoherently
11 days ago Donald Trump said he wanted to be out of Syria within a matter of months. Tonight American, British, and French forces bombed Syria. I guess that earlier statement is, to quote Nixon flack...
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Talking Turkey
The fog of scandal is thick and spreading. While it’s true that all roads lead to Russia, there’s at least a back road leading to Turkey. Trump loves autocrats and the Turkish model of government has...
View ArticleMe and Ed Markey
I’ve been quiet about the Syria mess because I’m genuinely conflicted, undecided, and all that stuff. This isn’t Iraq since there’s a war already going on and international sources have been reporting...
View ArticleWe’ve Seen This Movie and Spoiler Alert, IT SUCKED
No boyfriend jokes this time: “In the event Syria imploded, for instance or in the event there was a threat of a chemical weapons cache falling into the hands of somebody else and it was clearly in the...
View ArticleShorter Big John: HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUCK MY BALLS
Oh for fuck’s sake: Look. Raise serious objections to action in Syria. There are about a hundred of reasonable ones: That this isn’t our job, that we don’t really know what this is, that we have no...
View ArticleSending More Than Freedom Bombs
My friend Erin, who spent some time in Syria last year during the civil war, is running an aid project for displaced Syrian refugees in Jordan. Go, read, and donate if you can. A.
View ArticleLifeline
What a weird, wild and even wonderful day it was on the foreign affairs front. There’s been some debate as to whether John Kerry’s comments about Syria relinquishing its chemical weapons was a gaffe,...
View ArticleUnsolicited Op-ed Advice
Vladimir Putin’s dickish op-ed for the NYT has also been published by the Guardian. I have confidence that No Drama Obama will NOT react by shitting himself like Bob Menendez or Senator Walnuts. It’s...
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