Archive for December, 2007

A Rant on Occupation and War in Iraq and Afghanistan

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 by TS.

A report issued on December 21 found that two million children in Iraq, with a population roughly equal to that of Canada (or at least it was before the invasion and occupation) face some kind of threat, whether it is poor nutrition, disease or education interruption. Never mind the continual threat of being blown […]

Musings on the Significance of Social Change, US Decline, and Ronald Reagan

Monday, December 10th, 2007 by thwap

The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 is a convenient signpost for the movement represented by the goons of our present times. The significance of Ronald Reagan is that he represented a conscious decision to embrace fantasy over reality, to celebrate ignorance over inconvenient reality, to use simplistic slogans over nuanced deliberations, and to engage […]