Category Archives: history

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

I don’t see color. Obama looks just like Bush.

Posted on September 10, 2013 by oddmanout215

I was back at my shack in Tinicum swamp, eating pizza and reading the Obama administration’s rationale for wanting to bomb Syria. It passes the “common sense test,” an aide said. I don’t know how Barack Obama is defining common … Continue reading →

Posted in history, humor, Iraq war, mainstream media, Obama | Tagged Bashar Assad, common sense test, George W. Bush, I don't see color, Stephen Colbert, Syria | Leave a comment

Obamabots to Cornel West: Shut the f*ck up!

Posted on September 2, 2013 by oddmanout215

Cornel West recently called MSNBC’s Al Sharpton “the bonafide house negro of the Barack Obama plantation” in connection with media coverage of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. A … Continue reading →

Posted in history, mainstream media, Obama | Tagged Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, Cornel West, house negro, I Have a Dream, MSNBC | Leave a comment

Krugman strains eyes, can’t see light at tunnel’s end

Posted on July 18, 2013 by oddmanout215

Give credit to Paul Krugman for consistently refusing to pretend the so-called Great Recession was anything less than a depression. Now he’s suggesting hard times might be here to stay, because working-class Americans are too brain-dead to take action on … Continue reading →

Posted in economic collapse, Great Depression, history, mainstream media, The New Depression, unemployment | Tagged Great Depression, Great Recession, Paul Krugman, World War II | Leave a comment

In today’s U.S.A., Ellsberg would be deep-sixed

Posted on July 16, 2013 by oddmanout215

Regarding a convergence of stories about truth tellers: Last week I watched The Most Dangerous Man in America (2009), about Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to shred the web of lies spun by government officials in their successful effort to pursue full-scale … Continue reading →

Posted in history, mainstream media, New York Times, Occupy Wall Street, police state | Tagged Andrew Ross Sorkin, Daniel Ellsberg, David Gregory, Edward Snowden, Pentagon Papers, police state, The Most Dangerous Man Alive | Leave a comment

Li’l Tom’s big lie about Walmart and women

Posted on June 23, 2013 by oddmanout215

Some Hollywood stars like to lend their names to noble causes. Other stars, more down to earth, prefer using their celebrity to pad their bank accounts. From Huffington Post, an exceptionally shabby example of the latter: Critics are calling out … Continue reading →

Posted in globalization, Great Recession, history, humor, liar, mainstream media, The New Depression, world-wide economy | Tagged Bangladesh factory collapse, Tom Cruise, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Walmart | 1 Comment

Obama’s Penny pal (the rich take care of their own)

Posted on May 18, 2013 by oddmanout215

It’s no secret that six members of the Walton gang — the Walmart Waltons — have more wealth that the bottom 40 percent of American households. This is up from the 30 percent more they enjoyed in 2007, before the … Continue reading →

Posted in Great Recession, history, mainstream media, The New Depression, unemployment, Wall Street | Tagged Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, Cornel West, Penny Pritzker, Richard Rubin, The Grapes of Wrath, Walmart, Waltons | Leave a comment

Hitler’s food taster tells all

Posted on April 28, 2013 by oddmanout215

Margot Woelk, 95, recently confessed to having worked as a food taster for Adolph Hitler in his war headquarters, Wolf’s Lair, in what used to be East Prussia. She told the Associated Press that her job, like most jobs, had … Continue reading →

Posted in cruel and unusual Texas, history, humor, Iraq war, mainstream media | Tagged Adolph Hitler, George W. Bush, Hitler's barber, Hitler's food taster, Hogan's Heroes, I know nothing, Margot Woelk, mission accomplished, Sergeant Schultz, Wolf's Lair, Woody Allen, World War II | 1 Comment

Ding dong! Maggie’s dirty deeds live on

Posted on April 13, 2013 by oddmanout215

From a 2004 column in Daily Mail on what happened to the working class in Britain after Margaret Thatcher’s successful crusade to kill the miners’ union: … What the [coal miners’] strike represented to us was a set of values … Continue reading →

Posted in economic collapse, history, humor, mainstream media, pop music, The New Depression, unemployment, world-wide economy | Tagged coal miners' union, David Cameron, Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan | 3 Comments