Jack Burns Lives!

2009 wasn’t a great year for a lot of folks, but overall, I’ll give it a C-. We got rid of the Bush Crime Family, and while the replacement seems only marginally better, he is better. At least our President doesn’t stumble over his words like a third grader that just got caught throwing [...]

This started out as a piece on birds. Winter birds, as we’ve had the recent pleasure of visiting with some seasonal friends visiting during their winter vacation. Then it morphed into something else entirely, thanks to my Attention Deficit Disorder or what used to be called lack of concentration or focus. I shifted to e-mail [...]

Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Sunrise
12-22-09

So I’m sitting in a restaurant having lunch and cannot help but overhear a conversation taking place right next to me. Two guys, both probably in their mid-forties, talking business. Or, “b’ness” as we say in the South.
“This is how it went down. The bigwigs on the board decided to cut some overhead, so [...]

Is it really any surprise that corporate enforcers are carrying out the corporate agenda in the Middle East?
These are the goons Abbey wrote about in Good News. Welcome to the future.

Those words used to refer to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but it seems the eastern reference has now expanded to include the Caspian Sea.
“Yesterday, with the U.S. Secretary of Defense at his side, the President of Afghanistan declared that his country’s security forces will need financial and training assistance from the United States for [...]

The President announces we will continue with the theme of unilateral action and cross the border of Pakistan, if necessary, to deal with the Taliban.
I’m no fan of the Taliban, but I find our level of hubris quite startling, as apparently, we can go anywhere we wish, whenever we wish, to do whatever [...]

“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.”

Thanks for feeding the nation a line a bullshit only a fool would believe. And thank you, Dennis Kucinich, for telling the [...]