by Cary Harrison While this handy one-sheeter isn’t entirely comprehensive, it is intended to offer a quick highlight reel of laws and presidential directives capable of triggering martial law. Keep in mind, the loss of Habeas Corpus and Posse Comitatus, coupled with a new definition of “torture” are just the tip of the prickly authoritarian […]
On board the Diamond Princess tonight. We have left Vladivostok are are headed toward South Korea. The ship has endless jewelry tables to cajole old ladies to refresh their diamond and pearl supplies. Fascinated by the shooting-fish-in-a-barrel nature of this sales gimmickry, I watched the string of elderly women pass by, ruthlessly triggered by sales […]
(Originally Published in 2000, after the Supreme Court oficially “selected” the next President) In 2000, my Harvard-educated, WASP uncle in Connecticut said, “I’m not voting for the man, I’m voting for his team”. Perhaps the original sentiments of some 40 million Republicans who surely couldn’t, with a straight face, exclaim greatness in then-candidate G. W. […]