Archive for January, 2010
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Military Democracy
If there was any doubt whether the U.S. system of government had become a Military Democracy (as opposed to a representative democracy, constitutional monarchy, corporate theocracy), the president has proposed a freeze on discretionary spending. And guess what is non-discretionary?
6 Comments » - Posted in Essays, Obama 44 by eric
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Getting Things Right, Getting Things Wrong
Regardless, I think that yesterday’s one year anniversary of President Barack H. Obama in office warrants some reflection, especially considering that I was an outspoken Obama supporter during the election. Now, one year later, I think it is safe to say that I got one thing right and one thing very wrong.
What I got right […]
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Sleep and Believe
This I promise is not a political post. It is about the willingness of the masses to believe whatever the government tells them (with the full support of an abetting media). Ironically, for a nation that innately distrusts the government in all things domestic, it is a blind follower of the government abroad as supreme […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Essays by eric
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
A Letter from Satan to Pat Robertson
Here’s a very clever response by one Lily Coyle in the Minneapolis Star Tribune to Pat Robertson’s preposterous claim that Haitians had signed a pack with the Devil, resulting in the recent the earthquake (chickens roosting?):
Dear Pat Robertson, I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Digressions by eric
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
The Polisario in Madrid?
A few weeks ago I wrote about the bewildering infatuation of the Spanish intelligentia with the independence from Morocco of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony.
What is so strange about this relationship is that the end of Spanish rule over Western Sahara in 1975, some twenty years after Spain and France relinquished control over most […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Living la vida española by eric
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Osama bin Llamazares
The barely relevant Spanish Politician, Gaspar Llamazares, of the equally unimportant far left wing party, Izquierda Unida, is upset after his image was used by the FBI to generate its new updated profile of what Osama bin Laden. Of course, FBI clumsiness should be no surprise to anyone (heck, we bomb countries every time the […]
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Resolution for 2010
After a record long intermission from Grave Error, I am back with my 2010 New Year’s Resolution. Now, I know I have mentioned before that this was not a political blog, was never intended to be one, that I would try harder to steer it back towards its more digressive origins, and that I have […]
