Is there a connection between the arrest of former Iranian nuclear negotiator Hossein Moussavian last May for allegedly passing on information about Iran’s nuclear program to the British, and the recent National Intelligence Estimate? The New York Times reported on Dec. 5: American intelligence agencies reversed their view about the status of Iran‘s nuclear weaponsContinue reading “"Blogging!"”
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Weapons Grade Nerve
That boom off in the distance was not the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, but Norman Podhoretz’s head exploding. Sadly, this hasn’t set back his personal program of permanent global warfare, which is securely ensconced in the deep underground bunker of his psyche, reinforced with hardened layers of fervor so as to withstand even theContinue reading “Weapons Grade Nerve”
The Good, the Bad, and the (redacted)
Those few who’ve been familiar with Untethered for a while (Hello, Uncle Morty!) know that I have long believed that the Iraq war is ultimately, simply, about oil, despite the WMD/terrorist hysteria, despite the Administration’s sophomoric, Gersonian rhetoric asserting the goal of “ending tyranny in our world” by toppling nations that appeared to be arbitrarilyContinue reading “The Good, the Bad, and the (redacted)”
Strange Truth
New! Improved! @ 19:20, 11-19A good principle, not rightly understood, may prove as hurtful as a bad.–Milton. Upon returning from an air break, Democracy Now was playing Billy Holiday’s haunting dirge, Strange Fruit, about lynching in the South. This was about three months ago, before the Jena Six story broke nationally. After the Duke rapeContinue reading “Strange Truth”
Forget MLK; It’s ODB Day
(I had resolved to post more regularly, and fell ill over the weekend, only coming around fully today with just some residual head-throbbing that only bothers me if I attempt to move, sneeze, cough, focus my eyes, or speak; therefore, in another cheesy move, and furthermore as I intended to recognize today’s anniversary already, today’sContinue reading “Forget MLK; It’s ODB Day”
The Bland Inquisitor
INTERIOR, AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, TWILIGHT An anonymous PRISONER is seated on a plain wooden chair facing the VP’s desk. He is haggard, gaunt, filthy. A dark puddle of something is at his feet. His wrists are chained to his ankles with unnecessarily heavy chains. He is leaning forward, listing to the side, as if heContinue reading “The Bland Inquisitor”
Hollywood Acts
November 4, 2007 Hollywood CA (UNS) — At a news conference today a group of activist filmmakers unveiled a plan to use cutting-edge technology to eventually rid all Hollywood films of nooses, a symbol of lynching in the Jim Crow South. “The campaign of intimidation sweeping the nation involving the use of nooses, a symbolContinue reading “Hollywood Acts”
Farce Imitates Life, Life Returns Favor
Why bother with satire?CNN‘s Rick Sanchez, whose Hispanic surname seems to have made him the network’s go-to guy on racial issues despite the fact that he is nearly as WASP-like in appearance and manner as Ted Knight’s Judge Smails in Caddyshack (or, for that matter, Knight’s affable and clueless anchorman Ted Baxter of The MaryContinue reading “Farce Imitates Life, Life Returns Favor”
Newswire
October 31, 2007 New York, NY (UNS) — The Congressional Black Caucus introduced a non-binding resolution today to censure the government of Iraq for its use of a noose, a symbol of lynching in the Jim Crow South, to execute Saddam Hussein. “Regardless of the fact that this unfortunate act passed into history months ago,Continue reading “Newswire”
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Inland Empire, David Lynch
untethered 