Hammer Mill Days

Let's see, what was it? Spring back, fall forward. Right? Yeah, that makes sense. Set the clocks back, kids... it's really only 11:00 in the morning. Hiya. Yeah, I know... the Daylight Savings Time thingy was days ago. We're running a little behind here at the abandoned Cheney Hammer Mill, here in lovely (rainy) central New York. (That's why we need to set those clocks BACK, damnit, BACK!) Lost inside this cavernous hulk of a building, you lose track of time sometimes.... especially if you wander into Mitch Macaphee's laboratory. (Yes, he's been messing with time again. So if you're discovering crows feet you didn't notice a day or two ago, it's all down to him.) And that's just one of the many hazards we have to deal with on a daily basis. They say show business is a dangerous trade, but "they" never spent a week in Big Green 's shoes, no sir. Between the mad science projects, the lingering orgone generation field left over from T...

I've been hearing the bleatings of ex-Bush administration officials and other assorted "conservatives" (i.e. statist reactionaries) on the airwaves lamely attempting to reframe the history of the past eight years, now that it is safely past (and fading from the collective memory). You got your Ari Fleischers, your Frank Gaffneys... a whole rogue's gallery of familiar mugs, bandaging up what is without question the most sorry record in recent presidential history. This would be amazing if we lived in a sane world - as it is, it's just kind of laughable. Obama (which is to say, we ) should be grateful that Bush rid the world of Saddam Hussein. W.t.f. - grateful for what? Saddam wasn't even a credible threat to Iraqi Kurdistan, let alone the United States. Is the world a better place without him? Not really. Not that Saddam made it any better, but simply because of the fact that it hasn't gotten any better since his passing. So even by the standards of the c...