This Day in Hell: The ‘Perley’ Gates
February 21, 2050: Richard Perle is welcomed to Hell after decades of being assured he is going to Heaven. To the amusement of everyone, Perle makes a lengthy speech wherein…
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…