Hammer Mill Days

My watch is running .... backwards. Mitch, how about yours? Forward, double speed? Wait a minute. Somebody check the man-sized tuber's watch. No watch? How does he breathe ? Oh, yeah... hi out there in normal-land. It is I, Joe of Big Green , speaking for the entire enterprise when I say, w.t.f., we are more lost than ever, if such a thing is imaginable. Bad enough our renegade man-sized tuber went on a rampage, reducing our navigational console to a somewhat less than functional state. After that, our mad science advisor Mitch Macaphee decided to take the reins, using a little technological prestidigitation to make the ship go this way and that. Unfortunately, one of his most dramatic "zigs" (or was it a "zag"?) sent us through what can only be described as a hole in the time-space fabric. (Hey, the universe is getting a little long in the tooth, okay? It's bound to fray around the edges. Just wait until you're 13.5 billion years old and see how you f...

Just a few short takes in the waning days of summer. Here goes... Color blind. This week former president Jimmy Carter gave voice to another inconvenient truth; namely that racism is still a force in the United States and that it is a factor in some of the more vitriolic opposition to Obama's presidency. I would think that this might seem obvious to anyone who's lived on this planet for more than five minutes and is not a member of the Glenn Beck army of morons. The specious claim about Obama's non-U.S. birth, his secret life as a Muslim, his resemblance to Hitler or the "antichrist", and similar bile is apparently rooted in the desire to portray the president as "the other", the ultimate expression of which, in America, has always been the person of color. Of course, people from the center to the right are jumping all over Carter, accusing him of introducing race into this incredibly high-minded national conversation we've been having (ed. note: iro...