When Chickens Come Home To Roost

It seems to me the entire span of George W. Bush’s tenure in office has been one long game of Three Card Monte.
While the public appears finally to have its collective eye on the bean under the battered, bloodstained cup that is our Connecticut Cowboy’s Little Bighorn — hundreds of thousands of people […]

The Biggest Dick In America

Does anyone else want to kill Dick Cheney? I mean put both hands around his fat, fleshy windpipe and just choke the life out of the bastard? Or get not-quite-falling-down drunk and shoot him in the face with a shotgun? How about hang him from the end of a good, sturdy rope […]

The President, In The Library, With The Plan

Little more than one year ago, on November 30, 2005, the Bush administration unveiled to great fanfare a glossy, red, white, and blue publication entitled, National Strategy for Victory in Iraq. The president made a big speech to the midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, where he said, among other things, […]

The “B” And The “S”

A couple of stories had various jaws flapping today, neither of which reflects too well on the media, the punditocracy, or the so-called leadership position of the United States in world affairs. In one, certain quarters are up in arms over the cellphone camera recording of Saddam Hussein’s execution to which I linked yesterday. […]

Best Laid Plans

So much for New Year’s resolutions.
I had thought one thing I might try in the new year would be to up my posting schedule here at I Just Have To Say from something roughly bi-weekly to something more like daily. As I write, I’ve got less than 24 minutes to even get a post […]