The Tattlesnake The Suicide Kings of the GOP Edition
The Right-Wing Media Frankenstein is Pushing Its Republican Political Prisoners to Electoral Doom You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners. -- Glaucon, from Plato's "The…
The Tattlesnake It’s Time For Obama to Fire Petraeus Edition
GOP Candidate-in-Waiting Petraeus' Machinations Are a Threat to the President's Civilian Authority Lincoln had his George McClellan; Truman had his Douglas MacArthur; there's a history of politically ambitious generals undermining…
The Tattlesnake What’s in a Name? Edition
A Rogue By Any Other Name From an AP news story yesterday: US Security Firm Mired in Iraq Controversy Changes Its Name Blackwater Worldwide renamed Xe as company tries to…
The Tattlesnake GOP Fiddles While America Burns Edition
Or, Nero Was No Hero But one of the good things about reading history is you learn a good deal. And, we know for sure that the big spending programs…
Boomers Fizzle
Where do we go from here now that all of the children are growing up? Us boomers, through the 60s and 70s had all the answers. We were going to…