Hammer Mill Days

That thing shouldn't be allowed in a residential neighborhood. Yeah, I'm talking to you , Mitch. I don't want the mayor to send us nasty letters again . Five letters in one week is enough for any abandoned mill-squatter. Oh, hi. I'm pretending to have just noticed you, looking at the blog post I wrote days ago. (What a giveaway!) We're having personnel issues again here at the abandoned Cheney Hammer Mill, high in the hill country of Central New York, far from the beaten path. It's my own fault for taking on a mad science advisor. Sure, he helps us get to Neptune and other distant worlds. Sure, he bends time like Superman bends steel bars (i.e. with his bare hands). But the utility ends where the madness begins, and let me tell you something, friends - Mitch Macaphee, our mad science advisor, is as crazy as Jeremy Shaw's proverbial shithouse rat. What's the source of the current eviction order? Well, Mitch heard an internet rumor that a certain Chine...

The Trump clown car shed some bozos this week, most notably the media's favorite cabinet member, Rex Tillerson, former head of Exxon Mobil, who managed to seem avuncular and unthreatening in comparison with most of his colleagues - this while he systematically dismantled the State Department. Still, he did appear to be perhaps the greatest naysayer on tearing up the Iran deal. With the Koch Brothers invention Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State, I'm sure we will nudge much closer to the 2000 bombing runs he once suggested as an effective means of halting the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. In a saner age, that alone might have been disqualifying, but certainly not today. So, we'll now have an Iran warmonger as chief diplomat. And in Pompeo's old position at the head of the CIA, we will have the current deputy director Gina Haspel, a veteran of the Bush II-era Agency and a big fan of "rough" interrogation techniques (also known as torture). Haspel was d...