// Archives

The Other Side

This category contains 27 posts

Autumn Update

Well it is finally autumn down here in New Orleans. Unfortunately, my pumpkin rotted and I had to trash it. As the front sweeps away down here, the drama in the air is palpable. On most every front, there is a lot of heady shit going down. For instance, it appears that Halliburton was indeed [...]

Driven to Fury

I watched a clip of Sarah Palin’s address to the tea partiers at Boston Common today and it just pushed me over the top. SP: Borrowing and spending and inventing these big new government programs with enormous price tags, it makes no sense. WD: $236B surplus in 2000… $600B deficit in 2008 SP: There is [...]

High Drama on the High Plains

Hardin, Montana, population approximately 3,500, situated on the remote northern Great Plains, not far from Little Bighorn. Like countless other small towns, Hardin’s fortunes have waned as traditional industries have become less profitable or simply moved on. In 2004 the city created the Two River Authority (TRA), a quasi-governmental economic development agency charged with creating [...]

Health Care

It is unfortunate that Barak Obama was not able to move his health care agenda along faster. From never granting the single-payer option a seat at the table to distractions over racial profiling in Cambridge, he didn’t get ahead of the opposition on this issue. This is a shame. As a result, expect, starting now, [...]

The New Blackwater

Blackwater has a new name and look. The infamous security company has been given a makeover, and if I’m correct, most Americans will forget. Former: Current: From a design perspective, the new website has a much lighter background, and the main area has a white background. As if to escape the old name decisively, the [...]

Twitter

Archives

Categories

Random Photo

1121526020-513