A generic shoutout to William Rivers Pitt [View all]
A very good article from Truthout that pretty much sums up the past year from the sight of a gun.
Thank you Bill for your support here.
Resolve to Remember the Butcher's Bill
(Photo: Rudy Lara)It was my intention, with this final article of 2012, to make some sort of grand and sweeping assessment, a capstone argument, a clear-eyed statement of purpose in which...
Nope. Nothing there. I tried. I failed.
The well is dry, the socket has no charge, Casey has no bat. The Mayans were wrong; that's all I can muster.
The end of 2012 is something I greet in a state of exhaustion, horror, and sorrow. Every attempt to encompass these last 365 days has beggared me. Hell, the headlines over the last 72 hours alone have been enough to drive a man into the arms of serious drink.
Consider: During Sunday's interview with Obama on "Meet The Press," host David Gregory burnished his scumbag credentials by challenging the president to "talk tough" with seniors about the cuts he thinks they should absorb in Social Security and Medicare. No mention of any cuts whatsoever to the pornographic funding given to the "Defense" Department was made.
Continued here:
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