Author: phronesis

Forgive me in advance for violating all sorts of bloggeration rules.  I’m kind of copying my own comment to stormbear’s Olbermann diary because I’m fucking depressed.   This is a big WTF moment for...

Alexander Cockburn has a passage from his Rumsfeld book posted on Counter Punch.  The Counter Punch positng outlines Rumsfleds attempts to change the military.  Enamored by some Air Force types who continue to believe...

Another American corporation pays its CEO millions while screwing their employees. This short story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune is the perfect particular story that illuminates a universal truth about American corporatism...

Dick Cheney is claiming that he is immune from the civil lawsuit brought by Valerie Plame and her husband Joseph Wilson for the damage done to Plame and Wilson through the illegal revealing of her covert CIA status. From the...

John McCain is droning on about staying in Iraq and as usual Tim Russert can only lob slow pitch softball  questions.   Let’s assume McCain is an honorable guy with well thought views held with principle: in...