Hammer Mill Days

Why not? Because I said so, damn it. Will you just listen to me once? No , Marvin, no. We're far to ... uh ... well-done for that. Too crispy. If "The Colonel" saw us, he'd try to put us in a bucket with some nice pre-fab buttermilk biscuits. Mmmmm boy. Oh, hello. Funny that you always seem to show up when we're having a little disagreement over here. Nothing serious, you understand - just a difference of opinion. Between me and a robot. Not just any robot, of course - I mean Marvin (my personal robot assistant). I should keep him off Facebook, frankly. That's where he saw that article that's been driving him frantic ever since. It was probably planted on Facebook by the IRA - the Internet Robotics Agency - as a black ops effort against gullible automatons. What's the story about? Glad you asked. It was a piece about how filmmaker Peter Jackson is going to make a documentary out of hours of archived film footage of the Beatles originally gathered f...

You've heard me mention this before (if you've been following this blog long enough), but our former president George W. Bush was a big believer in accountability for the powerless; for the powerful, not so much. It's up to us to apply that principle to those in power, no matter how lofty their position. That's why it's particularly galling to see war criminal Elliott Abrams ascend to high office once again. Bush's father H.W. pardoned this creature, giving him a new lease on life as a decision maker - a lease he has exercised more than once in the years since his heyday during the Reagan administration. Abrams was an essential player in Reagan's war on Central American peasantry throughout the 1980s. He worked to cover up the hideous El Mozote massacre in El Salvador at the end of 1981, then went on to flak for that murderous government for the balance of his tenure. He defended the mass murderer Rios Montt in Guatemala during that period under the banner...