Hammer Mill Days

These are indeed auspicious days to be Big Green . What the hell am I talking about? I was hoping you would know, good browser. Yes, just hanging about at the abandoned Cheney Hammer Mill, assembling the next podcast of THIS IS BIG GREEN. Uh-huh, that's right - we personally assemble each episode by hand. (And no, that's not the royal "we" - I in fact have a mouse in my pocket.) It's painstaking work. Ironing out the dross, cutting the vulgarities, tuning up the music, tweaking the costumes (oh yes ... we wear costumes on our audio podcast). It is details like these that make for great podcasts. Ours is not one, but ... we use the same means that the greats use, with less than great results. I'm being honest, okay. YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT? (You do? My apologies.) Okay, so that takes some time. What do we do with the other 23.5 hours in the day? Well.... we've actually got a project ahead of us. Yes, another project. It's not one of those diorama th...

Israel has been knocking the living hell out of Gaza again this week. This round of bloodshed began with the killing of Zuhair al-Qaissi, head of the Popular Resistance Committees, a militant Palestinian group. Rockets fired into southern Israel in response were supposedly shot down by their new anti-missile system. I will reserve comment on that until I see convincing confirmation that the system worked, having lived through bogus claims about Patriot missile batteries during the Gulf War. I can say, anecdotally, that the one thing I hear repeated by defenders of the Israeli government here in the U.S. is missiles, missiles, missiles. It's like the G.O.P. candidates talking about gas prices. A million Israelis are under the threat of missile attack, they say. Little is said about the fact that more than a million and a half Palestinians live constantly under the far more credible threat of attack from the fourth most powerful military in the world. Well over a thousand have been k...