Hammer Mill Days

Jesus, that was slow. You know what we need? One of those vacuum tube systems with a branch that runs straight up to the freaking internet. You just stuff the podcast into a plastic capsule, cram that sucker in the tube, and up it goes to the "cloud". Then when it rains, everybody gets your podcast. Modern technology - what a freaking miracle. Now that the long-awaited May episode of our podcast THIS IS BIG GREEN has finally been posted, this seems like a good time to offer a quick rundown of its questionable contents: Ned Trek 28 - Disheveled in the Dark. This longish, musical episode of our Star Trek parody is based on the classic Star Trek episode entitled "Devil in the Dark", a standard morality play (of course - it was the 1960s) about a mining planet being terrorized by a mysterious cave dwelling creature. Look it up ... got it? Okay. The creature, called the "Horta", is represented in our version as the "Hairta", literally the animat...

It's always interesting when American Presidents in particular visit nations we have destroyed in past wars. This past week President Obama traveled to Hiroshima to deliver the resounding message that we are not sorry ... repeat, not sorry ... for using the most destructive weapons in the history of mankind on this unfortunate community. He also delivered some claptrap about reducing the number of nuclear weapons, even as his administration moves forward with an ambitious plan to engineer a highly destabilizing new generation of nuclear weapons. Empire means more than never having to say you're sorry. It mostly means never even contemplating the concept of "sorry" - an imperial value not lost on the likes of NPR, whose Morning Edition host Renee Montagne reliably informed us that "in America - the view of the bombing - though everyone recognizes this as horrific - the view of the bombing is it was done because it had to be done." So that's what ...