The Greeks’ legendary “Brazen Bull” was reputedly an instrument of entertainment and torture on the Mediterranean island of Sicily, then a possession of ancient Greece. The illuminati there liked to munch grapes and drink wine around the hollow bronze bull listening to some unlucky miscreant locked inside bellowing in agony while being roasted alive. Perillos […]
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky, from ‘The House of the Dead’ President Donald Trump is the fountainhead for many favors dispensed to the menagerie of powerful people willing to pay for them. One of the most despicable and profitable opportunities his regime provides […]
The four flush game of liar’s poker being dealt in the Middle East is nothing new. A very similar game was played between 1978 and 1980 when one-term Democratic President Jimmy Carter was in office. Carter lost that battle and his political war. President Donald Trump could have learned a lot from that Georgia peanut […]
In the Army, the recruit sentenced to scrub pots and pans in the mess hall sink while on kitchen police (KP) duty is called the “admiral of the vessels” for his 20-hour days lording over the pots and pans floating in greasy dishwater. In the White House, the admiral of the vessels is President Donald […]
On this Memorial Day weekend, while Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and rattled President Donald Trump battle over the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, another lopsided contest over presidential power is quietly being waged in Congress. It is the second time this spring that Congress had engaged Trump in a bipartisan attack of House […]
The disabused old saw that the only book Donald Trump ever kept at his bedside was Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf — the German dictator’s post-World War I vision for a Utopian Aryan universe — is perhaps true. The observation is at least a fair assumption. On Monday, Trump held a taxpayer-paid trip to a campaign […]
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan, the former Boeing technocrat Donald Trump selected to run the Defense Department, is desperately pounding the Pentagon’s war drums to the dismay of the generals and admirals at the Puzzle Palace who have to send Americans into harm’s way. It is reasonable to assume that Trump is directly behind […]
