http://overthehegemon.com If life is a journey with the same destination, then why do we all think that we have different road maps? Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:48:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Oh I know, I haven’t written in a while. All I can say is that it’s been a long year. But here I am back, just like the proverbial bad penny. See the kid in the photo? Yes, that’s Anon back in the fall of 1952. I look smug, don’t ... http://overthehegemon.com/2008/03/14/heroes-and-fools/ The Civil War was the first war to be extensively chronicled with photography. One would think that just that fact alone would have caused humanity to have chosen other ways to settle disputes. Looking at the dead Civil War soldier in this photograph, we can see no glory. In the ... http://overthehegemon.com/2007/05/28/memorial-day-remembrance-day/ Some days there’s nothing more to say. Could it get any worse? Oh, yes. Will it get any worse? Probably. Will we survive the Bush administration? Hope so. Is this the end of life as we know it? Who knows? But, we do need to take our collective heads out of the sand ... http://overthehegemon.com/2007/05/15/lets-do-the-time-warp-again/ Well, go figure the French. They stand in defiance of everything ‘Bush,’ and then turn around elect a man who states frankly that he plans on licking Bush’s boots. If only Ségolène Royal had been willing to say what the French electorate wanted to hear on policy issues . . ... http://overthehegemon.com/2007/05/13/mais-cest-dur-a-supporter-un-salaud-prefabrique/ Let’s take this nice and slow. Say we’re both in charge of something, like a nation. We hold co-equal status according to our Constitution. I’m the President and you’re the Congress. Now, say I want to do something that you don’t want me to do. For argument’s sake, let’s say ... http://overthehegemon.com/2007/04/23/running-it-through-the-logic-machine/ Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel . . . . If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty, I would do so . . . but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me. Have ... http://overthehegemon.com/2007/03/10/%e2%80%9clittle-did-i-dream-you-could-be-so-reckless-%e2%80%9d/ Since late January I’ve withdrawn to my little cave in the side of the mountain. I can’t explain it. Maybe I was just recharging. Maybe I couldn’t look beyond the rim of the chasm anymore without wanting to jump. As is so often said, “It’s nothing personal,” I just had ... http://overthehegemon.com/2007/03/08/fubar/ Mr. Bush gave his State of the Union (SOTU) speech on Tuesday night. He got very high ratings. Some 45 million people were watching to see what he was going to say and propose for our republic. I don’t know what they were expecting or hoping for; but I do ... http://overthehegemon.com/2007/01/26/what%e2%80%99ve-they-got-that-i-aint-got/ This graphic was with an article in the New York Times on 17 January (click on the link for a better view). I hardly know what to say after studying it. We were warned almost ½ a century ago by President Eisenhower about the pitfalls and folly of letting the ... http://overthehegemon.com/2007/01/18/feeding-the-beast/ Have you ever written a paper in a word processing program and had the damn thing tell you that you were writing in the passive voice? Well, Mr. Bush’s speech the other night would have brought the ‘passive voice’ flag up often. “Where mistakes have been made the responsibility rests ... http://overthehegemon.com/2007/01/13/you-pays-your-money-and-you-takes-your-chances/