Barking Rabbits

Friday, August 31, 2007

First rule of propaganda: dehumanize your enemy.

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Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels knew that. They convinced everyday Germans that Jews were non-human monsters, so people wouldn’t have as many ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Are we headed for war with Iran?

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It certainly looks like it. Our esteemed “war president”, George Bush, has been ratcheting up the rhetoric quite a bit lately. Glenn Green...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Have I mentioned lately how much I hate hypocrites?

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I do. Of all persuasions. It just seems that the preponderance of exposed hypocrites (double entendre there, I just realized) in the fold ...
Monday, August 27, 2007

The government is training the clergy to “quell dissent”, in case of martial law.

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This is so comforting. Here’s a bit from a post in the Agonist . A KSLA-TV news report from Louisiana has confirmed the story that Clergy R...

Nice camera angle....

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From watertiger at dependable renegade . I don’t have any point with this picture, really. It’s just very bizarre and funny.
Friday, August 24, 2007

Another insane person in a position of authority.

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This one, a top aide to the general in charge of the California National Guard. He has a web site… Well, I’ll just quote the story from th...

Another installment of “Who Can Sound Most Like George Orwell?”

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Via Americablog, here is Mitch McConnell, Director of National Intelligence . Q: Even if it’s perception, how do you deal with that? You hav...

Yeah, these guys are completely sane, and it’s us “liberals” who are moonbats.

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This is from a group called Family Security Matters . Yep, that name sure sounds nice and cuddly. Protective. Empowering. So, what do th...
Sunday, August 19, 2007

Judgment at Nuremberg

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I watched “ Judgment at Nuremberg ” last night, during TCM’s day long festival of films with Spencer Tracy. It’s a brilliant film, one of t...
Saturday, August 18, 2007

Amazing chalk drawings, Part III

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UPDATE: After looking closely at a couple of these latest drawings, I am now wondering if these photos are actually legit. Take a look at ...

Amazing chalk drawings, Part II

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Just because blooger apparently has a size limit on how many photos you can attach to a post.... Or maybe, there is a problem with one of t...

Amazing chalk drawings

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This guy is apparently very well known in Europe and parts of the U.S. I have no idea how he makes money at something like this, given how ...
Friday, August 17, 2007

Whose reality is it, anyway?

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Earlier, I wrote a little bit about how reality is currently seen from the eyes of a modern day physicist . I have assimilated that perspec...

Tony Snow to step down as White House secretary.

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I don’t really blame him, for several reasons. Having a high pressure, high profile job like that is difficult under the best of circumstan...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Physics: Reality is in the eye of the beholder.

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This post is going to be about some of the latest theories in physics, and it will probably take off from there. I have lots of thoughts re...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Local Seattle sports story meets national political scandal.

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Here’s a story that, on the surface, isn’t going to interest anyone who is outside the Seattle area, or isn't a die-hard NBA fan. Long ...
Monday, August 13, 2007

Huh. Karl Rove to retire by the end of August.

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I won’t go into the details of this, as all the bloggers have been on their form today on this subject. Go check out FireDogLake, for examp...
Sunday, August 12, 2007

The New Political Contest: How much can Republicans sound exactly like George Orwell?

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Via Devilstower, at DailyKos . (Sorry, can’t figure out how to get a link to the individual post.) Orwell Freedom is Slavery Giuliani ...
Saturday, August 11, 2007

The weird attitudes of George W. Bush

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Among the many, many things that George Bush has done and the attitudes he holds that absolutely confound me is this one. He continually sa...
Friday, August 10, 2007

Well, the mortgage meltdown has started, and it has the potential for widespread effects.

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The Federal Reserve is buying securities backed by high-risk mortgages. To my understanding, this is very unusual. Someone in the governme...
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

The wit and wisdom of The Simpsons, as it applies to the administration of George W. Bush.

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Thanks to the IMDB . Bart: I'm Bart Simpson. Who the hell are you? Tom Brady: [shouts] Everyone sucks but me! Homer Simpson: Sometimes, ...

A high speed passenger rail system for America?

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It seems as if every major country in Europe, plus Japan, has a high speed rail system that compete effectively with air travel for short to...
Monday, August 06, 2007

Solar eclipse as viewed by Hubble

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This is a pretty amazing shot of the shadow of the moon racing across the face of the Earth during a solar eclipse. Only those people in th...
Sunday, August 05, 2007

"Leave It To Beaver" as film noir.

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Just for a little variety, here's a post I wrote for another web site quite a number of years ago after watching "The Blue Dahlia...
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