27% of a Loaf is No Loaf

According to historian, Jim Powell, when western and private organizations ran the All Russian Committee for Aid to the Starving, approximately 11 million people were ultimately provided food (representing one of the greatest relief achievements in all of human history) and when the Bolsheviks took it over several years later, that number had plummeted all the way to 3 million, a 73% decrease. If this isn't proof positive that the private sector handles charity better than the command and control model of the government sector then it probably doesn't exist.

On the Latest Lisa, Shaw Donnybrook

As a person who holds both parties in contempt, all that I can really do here is look with bemusement. You have these two individuals who literally nobody has ever heard of digging their heels in, glorifying the particular, chipping away at each other edifice as if it amounted to something. I mean, I know that these things can get heated and that they sure as hell do, but if you have some situation in which a Neanderthal/bozo (which I gather Lisa to be at this juncture - at least to a degree) is talking endless smack in an echo chamber, just don't go to that fucking echo chamber. That's what I do....and I can fully assure you that ignorance IS bliss.......There, now watch, everybody is ape-shit now.

On Blogging Wars

a) It's just politics and b) 99.999999% of the people on this planet will never read a damn thing that any of us ever writes and even if they were to they'd probably disregard is as abject silliness. My suggestion here is that we all, all of us (myself included), need to take ourselves a little less seriously and maybe check out some chicks or something.

Jimmie Dale Gilmore's 1993 Version (With Apologies to Cassandra Wilson's 1995 Version)

What would be my answer to the question, "So, what's your all-time favorite version of the Hank Williams classic, 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry'?"

On Holding to Account (And/or Criticizing) Your "Team"

It's OK to do so and you never need permission (that, and it fully feels awesome; as in, liberating). Trust me, people.

On Obama Throwing James Clapper Under the Bus on ISIS

According to ABC News (Jonathan Karl and Rick Klein), it was well known by numerous people in the White House that ISIS had grown in both size and power, and that it wasn't even remotely a surprise that they had taken back so much territory in Iraq. It's a powerful piece and if it's true then this whole notion of Obama's that the White House was caught off guard is pure, unadulterated bullshit and yet another example of a fellow who seemingly cannot take responsibility FOR ANYTHING.........................................................................................And even if he believes his own little fantasy here, why pray tell is Clapper still employed? That I'd like to ask him as well.

On the Fact that that Neanderthal Didn't Just Jump the Fence at the White House but Actually Got Inside and Ran Around Like a Full-Bore Lunatic

Yet another secret service success story?