The Grumpy Forester

...I'm not sure what I am supposed to do with today's reflexive spasm of terror-fear offered up by the White House over the Supreme Court decision regarding Guantanamo detainees' legal rights. We have been assured that Gee Dub "strongly disagrees" with the USOC decision, but so what? The scenario offered up by Dana Perino today, presumably at the behest of her masters, of scraggly-bearded...

...it is said - oh, Lord, how often it is said - that Barack Obama suffers from the fact that the American people don't know him. That may be true and, if it is, it says some scary things about the state of the American electorate more than anything else, given the wall-to-wall primary coverage over the last eighteen months. What isn't said much, but would be equally true were it to be said more...

...now that I have finally joined the 21st Century and acquired hi-speed internet from my local cable company, I find that my location is shown as some place called Alpharetta, Georgia. Although this adds a layer of "international man of mystery" to this lash-up, it does make me wonder why my internet provider, a small outfit in Central Orygun, is routing me through someplace I've never heard of....

...given the fact that he is all over the map on the subjects of 'what he believed when' and what constitutes 'respectful discourse', a significant part of the foundation of Maverick McCain's campaign strategy is becoming clear. Aside from harping constantly on what his handlers hope will be perceived as Obama's 'flip-flopper' nature - despite McCain's own weakness in this particular venue when...

...I'm suffering a bit from outrage overload tonight and I just don't want to think about all the bad crap for a little while. What I have decided to think about is those times back before the Republican party managed to get its hands on all the levers and make it necessary to travel abroad with a handsome supply of "I'm From Canada"-themed apparel. One of those times officially commenced -...

...I've always thought space exploration was a cool thing, even if it was spidery robotic minions doing the work rather than the sort of space men that I always wanted to be when I was growing up. So I'm just a stone cold sucker for headlines like this: "Martian soil good enough for asparagus: NASA"... Maybe they can grow corn, too, or possibly switchgrass! The key to American energy...

...it is almost impossible to measure the degree to which the United States has slipped over the edge into the dark, strange 'banana republic/Soviet client/evil dictatorship' world that my grandfathers and father fought to defend their children and grandchildren from being subject to. They would be disappointed beyond the capability of words to explain their surprise at the direct expression of...