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OF GOLUMPKIS AND OTHER CONCERNS
by Jim
Culleny -8/26/04
Meatheads
Wrapped in Cabbage FULL
COMMENTARY
But the thing I
worry about even more than terrorism is the threat to our liberty
resulting from being deceived and mislead. I worry about our
freedom being steadily compromised by our fear of terrorism to
the point of finally being usurped --as Vladimir Putin has just
done in Russia under the umbrella of a Bush-like rationale: defense
against terrorism.
A GOD THAT FITS INSIDE A HUMAN HEAD
by Jim
Culleny --8/25/03
The Ten Commandment
Idol FULL
COMMENTARY
The problem
with God is usually not God, but God‘s interpreters. The
only container we have to hold our ideas of god is our head,
and although the head-size of some of the religious can be prodigious,
it'll never be big enough to encompass God. Yet over and over,
believers do ...try to contain God that is. They tailor God:
a little snip at god's compassion, a large tuck in universal
love, a huge hunk out of his/her creativity, hack off a galaxy-sized
piece of cosmic intelligence... pretty soon you have a God that'll
fit inside a human head.
BLACK HOLE IN THE DARK SIDE
By Jim
Culleny --8/16/03
Cheap-labor
Conservatives FULL
COMMENTARY
The way the free
market works is: produce something as cheaply as possible and
they will buy. This makes all buyers culpable in whatever flows
from this idea, including the hunt for cheap labor. Well, not
quite. If corporations always handled their financial matters
with at least a nod to fairness, there would be less a tendency
to be cut-throat in the drive to be cut-rate. But consumers looking
for the cheapest price are only part of the dark side of the
"free market". The big black hole in the dark side
is government-assisted corporate greed.
Bush/Blair Press Conference
by Frank
Stronczek - 7/18/03
Greenfield,
Ma
Sexy
lies on video tape ...FULL
COMMENTARY
I watched the Bush-Blair
PC, and it was distressing. Those two guys reaffirmed every lie
they have told leading up to this war on Iraq. The fact that
they are accorded such prestige and honor when they speak scares
me. They tell their lies with such conviction. Bush seemed so
confident
that WMD would be found, I think they've already been planted.
Red Herrings and Front-men
by Jim
Culleny -7/1/03
It's gonna
be a long century
...FULL
COMMENTARY
"Does even the most left-wing
Democrat want to defend the proposition that the world would
be better off with Saddam in power?" This is Newt Gingrich's
justification for the war. This is the sleight-of-hand now in
play by front-men.
Less Beautiful and Noble
by Jim
Culleny
Twarting
the will of God... FULL
COMMENTARY
By the time the
average U.S. citizen wakes from his-and-her reality tv, comfort,
and fear-induced stupor there won't be a single social or regulatory
program of the federal government left. For Republican neoconservatives
this is exactly the point. To follow their rhetoric, government-funded
programs such as public education, social security, medicare,
and universal health care coverage, run counter to the dictates
of a market economy and thwart the will of God. With George Bush's
tax-cut orgies, by the time Dubya supporters John and Jane Doe
(at the moment among post-9/11 hyper-patriotic 70-percenters)
realize they've participated in their own enronization every
single one of those programs will have been sucked into the investment
portfolios of the richest among us
The Grandure of the Deceit
by Jim
Culleny
What the
definition of "is" is these days... FULL COMMENTARY
Traditionally
Men In Power favor only information that keeps them in power.
A day with a history book will prove that this is a fact of life
the creators of the government of the United States made the
focus of their endeavors --you know, checks and balances and
all that. And it's a fact of life that can be appreciated by
everyone from the street on up, because it's integral to human
nature. Everybody who's been around the block a few times has
run into at least one power monger. A husband, wife, mother,
father, boss... you know the type. With a little simple multiplication
we can calculate the damage this urge to power will produce in
any government that sculpts information and lacks a healthy opposition
...democratic republic or not.
Other
Than That, What Else Could Go Wrong?
by Jim Culleny
If the
best laid plans of mice and men... FULL COMMENTARY
Didn't somebody
once say the road to war is paved with good intentions? Most
Americans believe we have a well-intentioned administration.
It's only human. No one wants to think the pilot of their jumbo
jet is running on machismo and twisted mysticism. But bad things
do happen to good people, so we shouldn't count on God to save
us from indeterminate consequences. What I want to know is, besides
the obvious, what else could
go wrong?
Call Me Forrest Gump
by Jim Culleny
Trent
Lott inserts past in mouth...FULL COMMENTARY
...should auld acquaintance
be forgot, and days of auld lang syne --or in plain English,
days of long ago? It’s traditionally appropriate to ask
these things as the old year morphs into the new. A little honest
evaluation of who we were, what we did, and the crowd we hung
with is a healthy thing. It might even shed a little light on
who we are now and lead to positive character development.
Who Needs Satan?
by Jim Culleny
Cardinal
Law’s agenda was to protect his system... FULL COMMENTARY
As God might say,
“With friends like these, who needs Satan?” From mullahs
to ministers, from lowly laity to to self-sanctified top dogs,
from Presidents to Attorneys General, it’s a mad mad mad
prayerful world.
New Venice
by Jim Culleny
The "Lake-as-Sewer"
principle... FULL
COMMENTARY
Bush administration
admits that global warming is caused, for the most part, by humans
burning fossil fuels. Duh. But
environmentalists should not exult, the administration's solution
is that we should "adapt to inevitable changes" rather
than do anything about it.
A Patriot's
Game
by Jim
Culleny
"...trust
no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."...
FULL
COMMENTARY
Adams was very unequivocal. "There
is danger from all men," he said, and went on, "The
only maxim of government ought to be, trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty." A healthy skepticism,
in other words, is the first defense against evil-doers looking
to rob you blind of everything worth living for, as well as those
with good intentions who create conditions that amount to the
same thing.
Consider This a 911
by Jim Culleny
The Greenfield
Recorder, Greenfield Ma. 7/5/01: Headline: Graffiti targets Colrain
Couple. Colrain’s Green Emporium owners and life partners,
Tony and Michael, suffer hate attack FULL COMMENTARY
Civilization
is a thin veneer. Speed and technology, comfort and security,
are no more than iron-on patches for places it’s rubbed
clean through. Temporary fixes. In those tortured spots, lacerated
and threadbare, mayhem erupts. From Kilarney to Colrain. From
Gaza to the Green River. Between the suicide bomber and the obscene
graffiti artist, it’s just a matter of degree.
Folding For Money
by Jim Culleny
Some
thoughts on the death of Paul Wellstone FULL
COMMENTARY
Paul Wellstone seems to have been a man who understood that all
the power weilded by government, belongs to the people, not to
bankers and corporations. This is, after all, the intent of the
constitution. It’s what it boils down to. Or is this now
naive?
Just Get Me My Gas
by Jim Culleny
A nation
of junkies FULL
COMMENTARY
There are about 6.2 billion people on the planet at this moment,
according to the Census Bureau’s population clock. That‘s
a lot of people just till now, and already the earth can’t
keep up.
How Safe is Your Dot?
by Jim
Culleny
On tipping
windmills all over the middle east... FULL
COMMENTARY
We’ll see alright. With an all-but-signed-off congressional
resolution giving him carte blanche in the war powers-department,
a Secretary of Defense who’s raised condescension to high
art, an Attorney General with the attitude of a theocratic generalissimo,
and poll ratings making him Mother Teresa with fire power, who
knows whose dots the president will connect with whose as his
homeland security needs evolve?
Bottoms up to That
by Jim
Culleny
Labor day
musings FULL
COMMENTARY
But bucking at least one of the excesses of human nature is what
the observance of Labor Day is supposed to be about. Though it’s
been reduced to an end-of-summer, backyard, beer-and-burger-blast,
Labor Day began as something nobler and closer to the heart of
the average American. It was something worth celebrating: the
contribution to the common good of those who labor and sweat
for a living. |
INDEX
OF
GOLUMPKIS AND OTHER CONCERNS
A GOD
THAT FITS INSIDE A HUMAN HEAD
BLACK
HOLE IN THE DARK SIDE
RED HERRINGS
AND FRONTMEN
LESS BEAUTIFUL
AND NOBLE
THE GRANDURE
OF THE DECEIT
WHAT ELSE
COULD GO WRONG?
CALL
ME FORREST GUMP
WHO NEEDS SATAN?
LABOR DAY
TERRORIST WARNINGS
PATRIOTS ACT
ANTHRAX
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
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