Random thoughts from this week...

You know it's bad out there when... ...Martha Stewart asks to go to prison. * * * In this era of the housing bubble , fueled by record p...

US Military Leaders Assess Iraq As Unprecedented Disaster

From the Guardian UK : Retired general William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency, told me [author Sidney Blumenthal]: "...

Seven Minutes To Midnight

Tim O'Dell has given me permission to post Seven Minutes To Midnight ( .rtf / .pdf ) in the GuvWurld archive. This is only the second wo...

More Suggested Reading

A while back I wrote that opinion polls should be among the collection of No Confidence skepticism targets (along with elections, election ...

Election News and Other Suggested Reading

During the recent GuvWurld hiatus, James at Cities For Peace sent a few items that I only just now added to the GuvWurld News Archive . Ch...

Letter to NYTimes >> re: The Public Knowledge of 9/11

The following letter was sent to the editors of the New York Times ( letters@nytimes.com ) as well as the paper's "reader's rep...

Is 1984 Taught In Schools Anymore?

When I was in high school, George Orwell's 1984 was required reading. I can't help but wonder how common this is in American school...

Dennis Kyne Legal Defense Fund

I have written previously about my friend Dennis Kyne, a Gulf War I vet dealing proactively with the repercussions of depleted uranium (DU)....

The GuvWurld Blog is Back

Well it has been a month since I last published GuvWurld. Thanks to a few of you who encouraged me to take a break. I was wound pretty tight...