The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Israel and Silkwood: Like the JFK and RFK Assassinations, Is the Israel Connection Again Being Avoided? A major conclusion with respect to the JFK assassination is that it might have been done to ensure that Israel got nuclear weapons. Was Silkwood a victim of the same goal some eleven years later? Sam Husseini Ramy Abdu of Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor,  reports : “After arrest warrants for war criminals Netanyahu & Gallant, Israeli forces escalated mass killings of civilians in Gaza. At least 9 massacres were documented.” That’s how Israel responds to legal action being taken against it, more lawless carnage. Here’s a bit of it: What explains this level of impunity? Today is the JFK assassination “anniversary” — my piece from last year on Israel and the Kennedy assassinations is below. Part of what compelled me to write it was how raising Israel in connection to that seemed to be systematically avoided. Well, it looks like there’s a similar pattern with Karen...

  The Gift of the Antagonist A Mirror for Self Reflection Kalihi Valley Druid Working class jobs come with their downsides. One of them is that I am regularly surrounded by knuckleheads. Even worse are people like myself who have moderate intelligence and figured out that we get a way better deal collecting blood blisters and trading dirty jokes than the "more successful" office-bound flora. That means there's no shortage of underachievers who consider themselves smarter than everyone else and imagine they will leave us all behind someday once they get around to doing some really amazing accomplishment that's going to bring them fame and fortune. Month after month passes without appreciable results, and gradually the walls of age close in as their grandiose dreams dry up and reality sets in. They get a lot easier to deal with once they hit their first Saturn Return and learn some humility, but until then they have plenty of energy in their 20's and 30's and we...