Month March 2008

The Surge ebbs

The Guardian discloses how the thousands of Iraqis hired by the US to hunt al-Qaeda are on the verge of going on strike because they haven’t been paid. The incompetence and venality of the Bush Administration is quite extraordinary, isn’t…

Me neither

But as one who has helped organize a multitude of antiwar protests, some of which drew hundreds of thousands of people, well, if you keep doing what you’re doing, you keep getting what you’re getting. The turnout for the antiwar…

Issues, anyone?

I don’t care about Rev. Wright, or what McCain did or didn’t say, or snooping into Obama’s passport record, or Hillary’s White House schedule when Bill was prez, or any of the other banal trivialities being passed off as news..…

Dead cat bounce

That’s the Wall Street phrase for a market that is rebounding for no particular reason, except that if you drop a dead cat from high up enough, it will bounce when it lands, but that doesn’t mean it’s alive. The…