Hammer Mill Days

Is that the press again? The daily press - what did you think I meant? Stupid personal robot assistant! Okay, well, as some of you may have noticed, we posted an installment of THIS IS BIG GREEN yesterday, the July program. And if you did, in fact, notice, you would know that it's what used to be called a "summer replacement" show, or perhaps more accurately, a summer re-run. It's like when they ran The Prisoner as a summer replacement for the Andy Williams show back in 1968, while Andy was off to the Bahamas drinking margaritas or something of that sort. Just like that ... except that The Prisoner was "good" What are we doing instead of finishing our July show? Well, I wish I could say we were doing as Andy Williams does, but it's not the case. I could give you a raft of explanations as to why we couldn't finish our June show in time even for July, but then you would just laugh at me. So ... here goes: Wolves! Wolves used to wipe out whole v...

The Israeli war machine is cranking at nearly full bore now, with something approaching 100 Palestinians killed in several days of air strikes, a ground invasion and re-occupation of Gaza threatened, and I'm sure quite a bit else that doesn't rise to the level of mainstream reportage here in the United States. This is being characterized as a "war", albeit an "asymmetric" one, but I don't know how you call something a war when only one side has an actual military ... that is, the fourth or fifth most powerful military in the world. The other side has very primitive rockets that they obviously can't hit the broad side of a barn with. I'll be clear, for what it's worth: firing rockets into southern and central Israel is not only wrong, it's strategically idiotic. But this nearly uncontrolled act of violence is a response to the ongoing assault against Palestinians, from the massive crackdown in the West Bank on the pretext of the 3 Israel...