Author Archives: Sparhawk

If I was religious, and for religious I mean dogmatic, churchgoing, smiling-backpatting-backstabber-handshaker, you know, one of those that give lip service to God while attending a social club with tax exemptions, and/or make a business of that lip service, I … Continue reading →

A rose, by any other name, is still a rose… Right? And here we go back to the issue of “intent”. For the maker of this software the product is just a long–and marketable–spaghetti of code. The weight of “intent” … Continue reading →

Somebody in the administration will find a way to wriggle out of this one saying that ALL modern weapons are chemical based and therefore unavoidable their use in a war. Intent though is another matter. A kitchen knife could as … Continue reading →

“We’ll do it under the law”–of the country where the prison is… “We do not torture”–but let them do it; we are there to record the information obtained… Sometimes I think people in power believe everybody else outside that sphere … Continue reading →

…”What was he thinking?”, give him some credit. The man may be corrupt and Pinochet’s “Mini-Me” wannabe but that’s never a metaphor for stupidity. All bets are still open, but, if I were the president of Peru, I would do … Continue reading →

Only the Royals are missing…. I could almost hear the countdown to Martial Law, State of Siege and curfews. Inevitable, if the curve of current events keeps climbing, I dare to say. Now, talk about symbols and imagine THAT happening … Continue reading →

Perhaps, the moment the U.S. drops the expectation of finding beady eyes, eager supplicants waiting for free handouts, of finding beggars knocking at their door, whereby all that is said from a higher-than-thou vantage point is accepted without question, perhaps … Continue reading →

Only problem is that, for most in Latin America, the only way to achieve access to “luxuries” like a refrigerator is to break away from the status quo and the only way to achieve that is through radical ideas. The … Continue reading →

The day some of these assholes realize that a shoe that fits one person may not fit another perhaps that clean slate will open their collective minds to novel ideas. You cannot open one door to free trade (inward, into … Continue reading →

…. Never play as they expect you. Now that you have the cow where you wanted it, milk it! Harry Reid sparks a dramatic Senate standoff – Tom Curry – MSNBC.com “The Libby indictment provides a window into what this … Continue reading →