Hammer Mill Days

Do we have 1.5 children? Only if you double-count the man-sized tuber. Let's ask anti-Lincoln to do the counting - ever since the war, he sees everything twice. Oh, hello. Just working up our census form. Don't mind me. Didn't know there was going to be a 2014 census, but I guess that's understandable, since we don't get a lot of news flowing into the abandoned Cheney Hammer Mill, our squathouse. Just yesterday some dude in a Fedora knocked on the front gate and handed me a questionnaire. He said I had to finish it by Saturday or his friend might set the mill on fire. (I think the friend's name was Giancarlo.) How old is Mitch Macaphee? No ... I mean before the youth serum? Questions, questions. Way too much on Big Green's plate lately, I can tell you. We've got the THIS IS BIG GREEN podcast , of course - always time-consuming. Our next episode of Ned Trek, for instance, will feature as many as 6 or 7 new songs, never before heard (and probably neve...

Panetta's out hawking his book about how Obama isn't enough of a hawk. Of course, he is likely acting as a surrogate for Hillary Clinton, who appears to be advocating a more knee-jerk approach to foreign intervention. She and John McCain (and his various clones) really, really wanted that Syrian war, and now both seem to believe that the advent of ISIS is the result of our having failed to jump in ass first last year (essentially on ISIS's side, it's worth pointing out). Shades of Bush/Cheney - I guess it's been long enough since the total disaster of the Iraq war for some people to yearn for the days of pre-emptive war, of "shock and awe", of taking the gloves off. Included in that number is the putative front-runner of the Democratic field for President. So, after six years of being compelled to drink the fragrant golden beverage of Obama's national security policy - drones, bombs, domestic spying, whistleblower-persecution and all - we are now to...