Hammer Mill Days

Whoa, incoming! Keep your heads down, my good friends. Here comes another one! Man, that was close ... too close. Oh, hey out there. No, the Cheney Hammer Mill has not suddenly found itself in the middle of a war zone. (Hell, no, we won't go!) We're just discussing reviews for our last few podcasts. These editorial meetings can get kind of brutal, especially when we start looking at what the public has to say about us. Just take a look at the Twitterscape and you'll see what I mean. We get roasted on Twitter every time we open our mouths ... even when Marvin (my personal robot assistant) makes one of those squeaking noises that just sounds like talking. It's brutal out there! Okay, so we're thin skinned. That doesn't stop us putting shit out there, friends. That's because we have a deep and abiding sense of mission. Just look at the line up we have on hand here. Take Lincoln, for example - perhaps our greatest president (though not with us this week a...

Non-stop fun here in the land of the free. No coincidence that this is the week they dedicated the George W. Bush presidential library. Some of the key "decision points" of his presidency were in play this week. Let's start with a honking big one. Syria. Bush's political allies (and many in the "muscular" liberal establishment) have been pushing for wider involvement in the Syrian conflict for a good long while now. This week, unconfirmed reports of the use of sarin gas by the Assad regime surfaced this week, by way of the Israeli and French intelligence services, for the most part. The Obama administration intelligence services seem ambivalent and non-commital on this evidence, but not so Admiral ... I mean Senator John McCain and some of his clones, who really really really wants another mid East conflict on his resume of error. McCain is once again proving why he would have been a catastrophic president. He affects to believe that creating a "...