Hammer Mill Days

I know. I shouldn't have interrupted him with my petty complaints. He's a mad scientist, not a T.V. and stereo repair man. My bad, totally. Dude. Oh, yes... that's right. We are not the only ones reading this. Sorry out there in the blogosphere. Big Green is in the midst of a band meeting of sorts. No, we don't typically do these. Like most groups, we all live together in our funky (i.e. "groovy") musician bachelor pad, with the retro sixties modular furniture and gooseneck lamps of the type you might find in Darrin Stevens' house (assuming he actually had a house and not just a set that is, in essence, a house sawed in half). My point is.... um ... (yes... it was a house sawed in half, perhaps by some kind of witchcraft, or ... craft services....) Damn it! Okay, I'll stay on point. We're meeting about that thing, that bloodthirsty killer. No, not "The Thing", as in the sci-fi movie "The Thing". I mean the thing that Mitc...

The Bush administration is over (for the most part), right? Well, not so fast. Yes, they started two disastrous wars, killing enough people to make Milosevic and Suharto blush. Yes, they shook the empire to its foundations, so much so that they spent the last two years of their tenure under the watchful eye of an imperial overseer (Robert Gates). Yes, their ludicrously ham-fisted foreign policy - coupled with monumental domestic blunders - resulted in the near-total collapse of the American economy, bringing on the first proper depression since the 1930s. But none of that means they shouldn't be put back in charge again, right? I think I felt the earth tremble just then. Yeah, nobody wants that ... really. And yet there is a very real possibility that many of the same people who ran Bush's foreign policy - including the most extreme of the neoconservative cadre - could have their sweaty, blood-stained hands back on the levers of imperial power this coming January. The cabal a...