Category Archives: history

MSNBC: The Russians are coming!

Posted on March 11, 2014 by oddmanout215

Robert Parry in Consortium News: If you were living in Crimea, would you prefer to remain part of Ukraine with its coup-installed government – with neo-Nazis running four ministries including the Ministry of Defense – or would you want to … Continue reading →

Posted in history, mainstream media, Obama | Tagged Crimea, Georgia, Kosova, Rachel Maddow, Richard Engel, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin | Leave a comment

Do as we say, Russia, not as we do

Posted on March 8, 2014 by oddmanout215

If I read one more time that President Obama thinks Russia’s support for a referendum on the status of Crimea “violates international law,” I’ll scream. This will mean nothing, because I live in a swamp and only my friend Swamp … Continue reading →

Posted in history, humor, Iraq war, liar, mainstream media, Obama | Tagged "The Searchers", "violates international law", Barack Obama, Buddy Holly, Crimea, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, John Wayne, Pussy Riot, swamp rabbit, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, war crimes | Leave a comment

‘Ever-so-gentle rabble-rouser’ Pete Seeger dies

Posted on January 28, 2014 by oddmanout215

I was away from the swamp, stealing potatoes at the local Super Fridge, when I heard about Pete Seeger. This will be a rough day, I thought. Swamp Rabbit is an old leftie with a soft spot for New Deal-influenced … Continue reading →

Posted in arts, Great Depression, history, humor, mainstream media, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, pop music, The New Depression | Tagged blacklist, Bob Dylan, John Hammond, New Deal, Pete Seeger, This Land Is Your Land, Woody Guthrie | 8 Comments

Karl Marx gets a makeover

Posted on December 23, 2013 by oddmanout215

Just for a laugh, I read aloud from a Guardian UK article in which David Simon expressed qualified approval of some Marxist ideas. Sure enough, my friend Swamp Rabbit called me a commie before I was halfway through the piece. … Continue reading →

Posted in down and out, economic collapse, globalization, history, mainstream media, The New Depression, unemployment, world-wide economy | Tagged Capital, communism, David Simon, Joe Stalin, Karl Marx, New Deal, plutocracy, swamp rabbit, The Wire | 1 Comment

Bush to help convert Jews, speed end of days

Posted on November 16, 2013 by oddmanout215

From yesterday’s Guardian UK: Some people think George W. Bush did as much as he could to bring about Armageddon with his earlier interventions in the Middle East. But not the man himself, apparently. He has signed up for a … Continue reading →

Posted in apocalypse, history, humor | Tagged end of days, George W. Bush, Irving, Messianic Jewish Bible Institute, Texas | 2 Comments

Was Lou Reed rock ’n’ roll’s last outsider?

Posted on November 1, 2013 by oddmanout215

My friend Swamp Rabbit, who only likes bluegrass and Bulgarian folk music, asked me about Lou Reed: “If this guy was an outsider, how come insiders sing his praises?” The rabbit was referring to the subhed of The New York … Continue reading →

Posted in arts, history, mainstream media, police state, The New Depression | Tagged Czech Republic, Heroin, Lou Reed, Vaclav Havel, Velvet Revolution, Velvet Underground, Venus In Furs, Walk On the Wild Side | 1 Comment

How to secede without blood and gore

Posted on October 19, 2013 by oddmanout215

It’s no secret the yahoos who shut down the government for 16 days have a grander goal than merely scuttling Obamacare. They want to achieve something akin to secession, but without the blood and gore that made the Civil War … Continue reading →

Posted in health care, history, Obama, voter suppression | Tagged David Sirota, filibuster, Garry Wills, gerrymander, New Deal, Obamacare, secession, virtual secession | 2 Comments

Today’s GOP — morons or monsters?

Posted on October 4, 2013 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit and I were laying down planks to fix the hole in the floor of my shack and arguing about Republicans in Congress who shut down the government this week. Is their bad behavior grounded in stupidity or malice? … Continue reading →

Posted in climate change, Congress, health care, history, humor, mainstream media, taxes | Tagged Charles Pierce, Kevin Drum, Mother Jones, reign of morons, Rep. Marlin Stutzman | 2 Comments

Stranger than Strangelove

Posted on September 22, 2013 by oddmanout215

I was back at the shack, beside myself with angst, reading to Swamp Rabbit about a catastrophe that almost happened a half-century ago: A secret document, published in declassified form for the first time by the Guardian today, reveals that … Continue reading →

Posted in arts, economic collapse, fiction, history, humor, mainstream media, movies, Philadelphia, unemployment | Tagged B-52, Dr. Strangelove, Eric Schlosser, Freedom of Information Act, hydrogen bomb, North Carolina | Leave a comment

Making the world safe for plutocracy

Posted on September 12, 2013 by oddmanout215

I tuned in Wednesday evening for Barack Obama’s let’s-bomb-Syria speech and heard this: What kind of world will we live in if the United States of America sees a dictator brazenly violate international law with poison gas and we choose … Continue reading →

Posted in economic collapse, history, Iraq war, mainstream media, New York Times, Obama, unemployment, Wall Street | Tagged Barack Obama, international law, safe for democracy, safe for plutocracy, Vladimir Putin, Woodrow Wilson | Leave a comment